Glasgow, Scotland - Tickets for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games are due to go back on sale. The tickets will be released over three days from to try to prevent the website problems experienced last week. Thousands of people faced hours of waiting as the official website struggled to cope and some were unsure if transactions had completed.
A number of customers were also charged for an engaged tone when they tried to buy tickets over the phone. The problems caused the sale of tickets to be frozen after only about half the 100,000 on offer had been sold. Team sports and ceremonies are going on sale first, with athletics tickets being released on Thursday and all remaining tickets on Friday.
Glasgow 2014 bosses are confident there will be no repeat of last week's chaos when they were forced to abandon the ticketing process after two days of technical problems. They expect demand to be high but insist all systems have been successfully tested.
After last Tuesday's decision to suspend sales the official ticketing agent Ticketmaster said it had undertaken extensive investigations and testing. (FA)
