More than 80% of Olympics tickets sold

PanARMENIAN.Net - More than 80% of all Olympics tickets, some seven million, have been sold, the BBC has learned, according to BBC News.

Organizer Locog said a million were bought in the last month and several thousand were yet to be made available.

Meanwhile, to mark a month to go to the opening ceremony of the Games, a track by rock band Muse, called Survival, was announced as the official theme.

And London 2012 chairman Lord Coe watched as giant Olympic rings were lowered into place on Tower Bridge.

Locog said excluding football, 90% of all tickets had been sold but tickets remained for volleyball, boxing, weightlifting and basketball although they were mainly top prices in early competition rounds.

Some tens of thousands have yet to be made available from a remaining pool of contingency tickets, organizers said.

There had been a small trickle of returned tickets including a very small number of pairs of 100m finals seats which would be released on to the general website when cleared for resale.