London 2012 Olympics: Day ThreeLive
London 2012 Olympics Day Three
More Olympic tickets put on sale
30 July 2012
Last updated at 17:22 GMT
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London 2012 Olympics Day Three
Tom Daley and Pete Waterfield miss out on a diving medal, GB's gymnasts go for a medal and the equestrian team compete. BBC SportOlympic tickets: More put on sale
More Olympic tickets will go on sale after the row over empty seats, organisers Locog have said.
It said an initial 3,000 tickets - including 600 gymnastics
tickets - were "put back into the pot" and sold on the London 2012
website on Sunday night.More tickets returned by sports federations would be released the night before events, Locog added.
London Bridge station is expected to be particularly busy during the Monday evening rush hour.
Thousands of spectators have been heading to the Olympic Park and equestrian events in Greenwich, on the first full working day of the Games.
Prime Minister David Cameron, meanwhile, said the empty seats were "disappointing" but not "a unique episode" with other previous Games facing similar problems.
At some venues, seats in the accredited "Olympic family" areas - reserved for groups including officials, sports federations, athletes, journalists and sponsors - have remained empty.
Locog communications director Jackie Brock-Doyle said organisers were doing everything they could to fix the problem.
Tom Daley and Pete Waterfield competed in the men's synchronised 10m platform final
And she said accredited seating for London 2012 was down 15% on previous Games.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "Often these are very nice seats in very high-profile positions - and so what we're saying to the IOC and the International Sports Federations is if you're not going to use them, could we have as many as possible back, because, of course, we've got lots of members of the public who would dearly love to go."
He said contractually the seats belonged to the sporting bodies, so it was a process of negotiation to get them released.
He said organisers were looking at whether it was feasible to impose a 30-minute rule whereby empty seats were re-allocated if ticketholders had not sat down within 30 minutes of an event starting.
Eventing at Greenwich has attracted large crowds
The latest release of tickets can be bought only online, before they are picked up at collection points in venues for pre-purchased tickets.
In other Olympic developments:
- Organisers say food and water supplies are being increased at venues after long queues and supply shortages during the opening days
- PM David Cameron, who chaired the daily Olympics security meeting on Monday morning, said he travelled on the Tube "to see what the traffic situation was like"
- Mr Cameron also dismissed criticism from a fellow Tory MP that the opening ceremony was "leftie", describing it as "an idiotic thing to say"
- Team GB's Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins clocked an Olympic record time of 6mins 44.33secs in the women's double sculls rowing as they powered into the final
- Weightlifter Zoe Smith, 18 years old and at her first Olympics, set a new British clean and jerk record and new personal best total
- The Olympic cauldron was extinguished overnight - although the flame was kept alight - while it was moved from the field of play to the south end of the Olympic Stadium
- Ten people have been charged with ticket touting offences since the start of the Games, and a further 19 have been arrested, Scotland Yard said
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London workers seem to have heeded warnings that extra restrictions and Games Lanes, combined with spectator congestion might result in nightmare commutes, and have changed their patterns.
Roads seem no more jammed than normal, train and tube lines are running well.
Even at London Bridge, where passengers have their own Olympic time trial today - diverted away from the usual routes in case of overcrowding - there were no complaints.
But this is a marathon, not a sprint.
Six platforms at London Bridge will be exit only this evening as 50,000 equestrian spectators all head home from Greenwich Park during the evening peak.
And the crunch transport test comes on Friday - the first full day of athletics in Stratford's 80,000-seat Olympic stadium.
Analysis
It has not been such a manic Monday so far.London workers seem to have heeded warnings that extra restrictions and Games Lanes, combined with spectator congestion might result in nightmare commutes, and have changed their patterns.
Roads seem no more jammed than normal, train and tube lines are running well.
Even at London Bridge, where passengers have their own Olympic time trial today - diverted away from the usual routes in case of overcrowding - there were no complaints.
But this is a marathon, not a sprint.
Six platforms at London Bridge will be exit only this evening as 50,000 equestrian spectators all head home from Greenwich Park during the evening peak.
And the crunch transport test comes on Friday - the first full day of athletics in Stratford's 80,000-seat Olympic stadium.
But Steve McNamara, general
secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association - representing
London cabbies - complained of "chaos" on London's roads as a result of
30 miles of Games Lanes for the use of the Olympic family.
He told BBC News "tens of thousands of Londoners are stuck in gridlock traffic" while Games Lanes were "completely empty".However, London Mayor Boris Johnson said some of the Games lanes had been "turned off", allowing the public to use them, because so many Olympic officials were opting for public transport.
He said IOC president Jacques Rogge had travelled by Docklands Light Rail instead of car.
Olympic organisers expect 1 million extra visitors to London to make some 3 million journeys on public transport - on top of the usual 12m daily public transport journeys.
In competition, Team GB divers Tom Daley and Pete Waterfield came fourth in the men's synchronised 10m platform final.
And Britain's men, who have made history after qualifying in third place for the gymnastics team final - ahead of Olympic and world champions China - began competing at 16:25 BST.
BBC reporter Ollie Williams reported that dozens of army personnel were filling seats in the North Greenwich Arena after the final had begun, but empty seats remained.
Mexican wave Meanwhile, Locog says it has checked all seating at temporary Olympics venues after BBC News website readers said flooring below seating at two sites had collapsed.
Michael Page, from Kent, was at the Riverbank Arena watching hockey on Sunday.
He said: "The crowd did a Mexican wave, one row jumped up and the empty seats behind moved forward which meant the flooring collapsed."
Officials drilled the flooring back together before the area was taped off, he added.
Locog's Ms Brock-Doyle said the welding had broken "on one seat at Eton Dorney and on a couple of other seats at the hockey so Games organisers have checked all the seats provided by the contractor to temporary venues".
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