The start of the second of ticket sales, which began on June 24 on a first-come, first-served basis, was open exclusively to applicants who did not receive any tickets in the first round sale which took place earlier this year between March 15 and April 26.

The exclusive second round sale was open for ten-day window but has now ended.

The next phase will see ticket sales open to the 700,000 applicants who were successful in all or part of their ticket applications in the first round sale.

It will open on July 8 at 6am and close on July 17 at 6pm but only football, volleyball and freestyle wrestling tickets remain with all other sports sold out.

"We now have at least 150,000 more successful applicants - and they and their friends and families are now going to the Games," said London 2012 commercial director Chris Townsend.

"Our goal is to get as many members of the British public to the Games as possible and we have sold over 750,000 tickets to people who were unsuccessful in the first round."

In total, more than 3.5 million Olympic tickets have now been sold and around 850,000 successful applications have been made for tickets with less than two million tickets remaining.

Around 1.5 million football tickets remain for men's and women's matches at Wembley Stadium, City of Coventry Stadium, Millenium Stadium, Hampden Park, St James Park and Old Trafford.

Meanwhile there are around 40,000 volleyball tickets are available for men's and women's volleyball sessions at Earls Court and around 8,000 freestyle wrestling tickets are available for sessions at the ExCel Arena.

Over 130 price categories across 58 sessions are still available with a full list of available sessions and price categories will be published this week on www.tickets.london2012.com.

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