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London 2012 ticket holders now able to book trains to Games at special rates

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By Tom DegunJuly 8 - London 2012 Olympic ticket holders can now take advantage of special rail fares for travelling to next year's Games thanks to the launch of dedicated new web pages today.

tickets have now been sold with 23 of the 26 sports on sale now sold out.Only tickets for football, volleyball


Britain's Got Talent star Faryl Smith to open international sitting volleyball tournament in Kettering

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and finalist of hit television show Britain's Got Talent Faryl Smith will open the European Committee Volleyball

for Disabled (ECVD) men's Continental Cup at The National Volleyball Centre in Kettering next Monday

Top sitting volleyball players from 11 international teams around the world will compete at the six-day

The men's Continental Cup is one of four international events organised by the European Committee Volleyball

and the only one to be held in England.The tournament is one of the last major international sitting volleyball

year prior to the Paralympic Games in London and provides an excellent opportunity for the National Volleyball

Sitting volleyball is growing from strength to strength and this tournament will be another opportunity


Rogge hails "amazing" demand for London 2012 tickets as he defends system as "fair"

  • London 2012

By Duncan Mackay in DurbanJuly 5 - The London 2012 ticketing system has been defended by Jacques Rogge, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who claimed that the demand to watch the Games was "amazing".

round sale.It is due to open on Friday (July 8) at 6am and close on July 17 at 6pm but only football, volleyball

, Millenium Stadium, Hampden Park, St James Park and Old Trafford.Meanwhile there are around 40,000 volleyball

tickets are available for men's and women's volleyball sessions at Earls Court and around 8,000 freestyle


London 2012 declare second ballot a success after 750,000 tickets sold

  • London 2012

By Tom DegunJuly 3 - London 2012 revealed today that more than 750,000 Olympic tickets have been sold to nearly 150,000 successful applicants in the "second chance" sales round which closed at 6pm today.

in the first round sale.It will open on July 8 at 6am and close on July 17 at 6pm but only football, volleyball

, Millenium Stadium, Hampden Park, St James Park and Old Trafford.Meanwhile there are around 40,000 volleyball

tickets are available for men's and women's volleyball sessions at Earls Court and around 8,000 freestyle



Thomas Cook now the only outlet for London 2012 tickets following second ballot

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By David GoldJuly 3 - Thomas Cook is now the only place for large numbers of fans to obtain tickets to the London 2012 Olympic Games after the second application ballot closed.

has a number of deals for various sports during next year's Games, including athletics, gymnastics, volleyball

Southwark and tickets to the taekwondo final and women's handball bronze medal match, and tickets to the volleyball


Coe and Daley join Sport England chair Lewis to open SportPark

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By David GoldJuly 2 - SportPark, a landmark building for sport at Loughborough University, was officially opened by Sport England chairman Richard Lewis, London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe and world diving champion Tom Daley.

SportPark is the home of the national governing bodies of swimming, volleyball and wheelchair basketball


Exclusive: Johnson plans to mobilise kids to fill the corporate gaps at London 2012

  • London 2012

By Mike Rowbottom at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London July 1 - Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has acknowledged that many tickets allocated to corporate guests at next year's Olympics are likely not to be used, and has set in motion plans to fill the gaps with brightly-clad schoolchildren.

cheesed off, but thankfully I was successful in the second go and got tickets for basketball and beach volleyball

I have the best possible excuse for the beach volleyball, which was that was all there was there."


Man arrested over Olympic ticket touting

  • London 2012

By David GoldJune 29 - A 23-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly trying to sell tickets for the London 2012 Olympic Games to the general public.

there may be a further 1.3 million tickets made available later this year.Only tickets to football, volleyball




Minister hails revolutionary disabled competition at launch of School Games

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By Mike Rowbottom in HatfieldJune 17 - Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, hailed a "brand new and very exciting" approach to disabled competition today at the launch of the Government's new big idea for sport in schools.

insideworldparasport: "There are some sports which are really well suited to this idea, such as sitting volleyball

As well as considering sitting volleyball and goalball, Campbell said there would be competitions involving


London 2012 announce second stage of Olympic ticketing process after two-thirds of people miss out first time round

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By Duncan Mackay in LondonJune 17 - Nearly two thirds of the 1.9 million people who applied for London 2012 Olympics tickets missed out in the first round of sales, it has been revealed today.

availability is basketball prelminaries, boxing, canoe sprint, hockey, handball, judo, sailing and volleyball

apply for a maximum of three sessions and six tickets per session for most sports, although football, volleyball


Hunt shows his paces at launch of new School Games

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By Mike Rowbottom in HatfieldJune 17 - Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, strutted his stuff on stage at the launch of the School Games here today - and maintained that the new event, which the Government is introducing in place of the old UK School Games, will "bring the magic of the Olympics" to pupils throughout the country.

expected crowd of at least 10,000.As children from schools across the Hertfordshire region set to work on volleyball