Most of the tickets for the London Olympics will be sold for under £100 each and 125,000 will be set aside for schoolchildren.
The cheapest ticket, at £20.12, and the most expensive, at £2012, are both for the games’ opening ceremony, depending on where you sit, of course.
And if you want to see the 100m men’s final, be prepared to shell out up to £725 for the best seats. The women’s 100m final tickets will cost between £50 and £450.
London 2012 said 90% of the tickets would be sold for under £100 and two thirds less than £50.
But there will also be some free tickets – for those keen to see the marathon, road cycling and the triathlon.
A whopping 1.7m people have registered an interest in buying a ticket. Tickets will be on sale from March next year.
London 2012 chair Sebastian Coe said the system of selling tickets was “the daddy of all ticket strategies”.
He explained: “"We have three clear principles for our ticketing strategy: tickets need to be affordable and accessible to as many people as possible, tickets are an important revenue stream for us to fund the Games, and our ticketing plans have the clear aim of filling our venues to the rafters."
A concessionary scheme will also mean that the under-16s and the over 60s will get cut price tickets whilst schoolchildren whose schools have signed up for the Get Set programme can earn tickets by achieving set goals.
By Dinah Hatch
