MORE than 15,000 fans who thought they had bagged Olympics tickets were told yesterday it was a mistake.
A bookings website that failed to update fast enough kept on selling after events had sold out. On Friday the Ticketmaster system put more than 2.3 million tickets on sale.
It was first come, first served – and organisers relied on manual updating by a team of workers.
But demand overwhelmed them. A Games spokesman said: “Over 150,000 applications were processed for 850,000 tickets.
“Around 10% were not successful due to massive demand. Ten sports sold out in the first two hours.”
It also emerged 150,000 tickets meant for Britons in Friday’s second ballot were bought by foreigners.
London 2012, whose website crashed due to high demand, cannot stop EU nationals applying for UK-allocated seats because that would breach free trade rules.
MP Priti Patel, of Witham, Essex, said: “The system is a farce. British taxpayers fund the Games
