By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor PUBLISHED: 12:06 EST, 14 November 2012 | UPDATED: 12:11 EST, 14 November 2012 More than 300,000 tickets to the London 2012 Games were never sold, despite millions of people jamming official websites in the hope of witnessing sporting history. A total of 263,824 tickets to Olympic competitions were never sold along with 55,455 tickets to the Paralympic Games, including thousands of tickets to the main Olympic Park in East London. Olympics chiefs were today challenged to come clean about which events were not sold out and why sports fans were told to stay away when tens of thousands of seats remained empty.
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More than 263,000 tickets for the Olympics and 55,000 tickets for the Paralympics went unsold
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284 passes to the Opening Ceremony were held back
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Around 1.2million were left empty-handed after the first ticket ballot
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TV viewers were furious at the sight of empty seats
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