Olympic park ticket to be sold

General admission tickets to the Olympic Park during the Games will go on sale to the public, London 2012 organisers Locog have said.

The cost and number of tickets that will allow entry into the site in east London has not been decided.

People without tickets for sports events will be able to watch the action on large screens around the Park.

A Locog spokesman said: “It is our ambition to sell general admission tickets to the Park at Games time.”

He said they were still working through how many tickets would be made available and how much they would cost.

Last week it emerged spectators may be charged to watch Olympic road cycling.

On Friday London 2012 chief executive Paul Deighton revealed people may have to pay to watch the cycle race from the prime vantage point in Box Hill, Surrey.

The road race includes a 9.6-mile (15.5km) circuit around Box Hill before finishing in The Mall in London.

Locog has been granted permission to allow 15,000 spectators in the area around Box Hill for the men’s and women’s events on 28-29 July.

Mr. Deighton said it would be “perfectly appropriate… to consider charging for the tickets” and they were still working out how this would be done.

There will be several large screens in the Olympic Park, the largest of which will be double-sided and floated on a barge in the River Lea, which runs through the Park.

There will also be large screens in Hyde Park, central London, and Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets during Games time.

Access to these screens will be free although places will be ticketed and a booking fee will apply.

And in Hyde Park tickets will be sold for the showing of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics on 27 July and 12 August.—BBC