One million offers for Olympics 100m tickets

London 2012 administrators have received in excess of one million demands for tickets for the Olympic men's 100 meters final.

The meeting, at the Olympic Stadium on 5 August next year, is one of the most hunted after of London Games. About 40,000 seats are existed after the stadium competence was divided through promoters, VIPs and the media. Candidates will locate by 24 June whether they have obtained any of the 6.6 million Olympics tickets accessible.

At least 1.8 million people applied, with a total of 20 million ticket submissions.

Challenge to watch the 100 meters final - probably to highlight Jamaican sprinter and controlling Olympic champion Usain Bolt - was forever going to be vicious.

Such was the height of claim in the latest ballot for tickets that the Olympic Stadium in east London could have been sold out no less than 20 times over. Those who have requested for Olympics tickets will be seeing their bank accounts for a sign to what tickets they have been due.

But with other large occasions probably to be just as over pledged as the 100 meters final, millions of people could be gone upset.

Olympics administrators are appearing to earn £500m from ticket sales as part of offer to lift up £2bn through private denotes.

Lord Coe, chairman of the organizing committee Locog, said: "It is certainly essential as 25% of all that you look out there in terms of the institute of these Games is our capability to nail our profits from tickets."

Lord Coe has also protected the way of selling Olympics tickets which perceives payments taken from people's accounts before they recognize which tickets they have been provided.

He said: "It was very apparent from us, very early on that we would be taking the money out and we would then allow people recognize what they obtained.

"It is simplest to do that all at once before in dribs and drabs. This was forever the way."

The value of Olympics tickets varies from £20 to £725 for the showpiece 100 meters final, and arrives at £2,012 for the opening rite on 27 July. On Wednesday, the first 74 places on the 2012 Olympics torch pass on route were opened.

Beginning at Land's End, it will see the Olympic torch travel 8,000 miles (12,800 km) covering all the nation and territories in Britain as well as island visits.