London 2012 ticket applicants should now know whether they have been successful in securing a seat at next year’s Olympic Games – but a quarter of a million people have missed out entirely.

Organisers last night finished debiting bank accounts, following the six-week ballot which ended on April 26.

But one in seven, from the 1.8 million applicants, will not receive a single tickets after nearly half of the 625 sessions were heavily oversubscribed.

More than one million applied to watch Usain Bolt in the men’s 100m final at the 80,000-capacity Olympic Stadium – where only 40,000 seats were on sale to the public – while the opening ceremony was ten times oversubscribed.

Twenty-thousand tickets were available for each day, August 11 for women and August 12 for men, of the mountain biking, which will take place over a 5.5km course at Hadleigh Farm in Essex.

But unsuccessful cross-country fans may have to settle for the Hadleigh Farm International, this summer’s test event on July.

The application process has been heavily criticised, with the ballot rewarding a bet-big-win-small gambling strategy, while successful applicants will not find out exactly what tickets they have until June 24, despite the money already being taken from their bank accounts.

Applicants who fail to receive a single ticket out will be given priority when a second batch of tickets is released later this year – but expect to make do with unpopular sports and obscure qualifying sessions.

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