LONDON, May 26 (UPI) -- Thousands of tickets to London Olympics events that went on sale this week had not been sold three days later, officials said.
Some of the tickets were to events like beach volleyball, boxing and basketball that are usually in high demand, The Daily Telegraph reported. The reason for the slow sales appears to be difficulties with the Ticketmaster Web site.
Almost 1 million "contingency" tickets were released, and 300,000 were still available, the Telegraph said
The organizing committee says 4.6 million tickets have been sold for the games out of a total of 6.6 million available. Most of the unsold tickets are to Paralympic events and soccer matches -- as well as the 300,000 "contingency" tickets and another 2 percent of total tickets being held back for possible last-minute seating changes.
