Ticket deadline extended after Olympic site delays

The application period for London 2012 Olympic Games tickets was extended by an hour to 1am this morning after a late surge in interest led to delays on the ticketing website.

Problems struck for about 20 minutes from 10.30pm last night, as the clock ticked down to the 11.59pm deadline for the 6.6 million tickets, and a London 2012 spokesman confirmed last night that the deadline had been extended by an hour.