Extra 300,000 seats available for 2012 London Games

LONDON - An extra 300,000 seats will be available to sports fans at the 2012 London Olympics, organizers said on Monday as they set out their plans for avoiding the empty stadiums at Beijing.

Ticket numbers were raised from 7.7 million to 8 million, the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), responsible for staging the Games, said.

An extra 500,000 tickets were made available for the Paralympics, bringing the overall total to 10 million.