In order to get the tickets I wanted for London 2012, I used the fact that as part of the EU I could buy tickets from other EU country official sellers.  I wasn’t alone in this, as their websites crashed etc under the load just like the official GB one did as soon as any sales were announced!

Two of the EU sites allowed you to pay for delivery via courier (still not sure why this wasn’t an option with Sportsworld!) and yesterday I stayed in to receive my tickets from Eventeam the French official seller which were sent via UPS so now I have some Badminton tickets – very excited!  I already have some more badminton tickets for the same day and I’m going with two different extended family members – should be fun!!  The only issue with them is that they came with a letter all in French so now I just have to find someone who can translate it for me!