Most Londoners who applied for tickets to the 2012 Olympics should have discovered whether their application via public ballot was successful. Games organisers said they were on track to debit accounts by midnight on Tuesday. They will then be contacting people whose cards have failed until 10 June, and people will be told which tickets they have on or before 24 June.
With 20 million applications nationwide for the 6.6 million tickets available there is likely to widespread disappointment. The system, which has received criticism, takes money from people’s accounts before they know which event they have tickets for.