Tickets for the London 2012 Olympics will start at £20 and go up to £725 for the showpiece 100m athletics final, organisers have announced.
The highest priced ticket for any event will be £2,012 for the best seats at the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium.
The lowest price for the same event will come in at £20.12 but seats priced at £1,600, £995 and £150 will also be available.
The closing ceremony will command a highest price of £1,500 going down to £20.12, with £995, £655 and £150 seats also on sale.
London 2012 chairman Lord Coe described the policy behind the wide-ranging pricing structure as an effort to make the tickets "affordable and accessible to as many people as possible".
The organisers, who need to get 25% of revenue from ticket sales, said charging a high fee for the key contests and ceremonies will enable them to supply much cheaper tickets for the same events.
The number of tickets for the 26 Olympic sports has increased from 8 million to 8.8 million, London 2012 also confirmed.
About 75% of this total will be available to the public, and will go on sale in March.
The prices of two million tickets for the Paralympics will be announced at a later date.
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