Being London mayor hasn't been enough to ensure Boris Johnson tickets for next year's London Olympics.
Johnson has missed out on tickets in the public purchasing system but says it's made him proud to be British as there must be no other country where the mayor of the host city has to participate in a ballot to get tickets and then gets rejected.
However he says he'll try hook or by crook to get tickets for his family.
More than half of the 650 sessions were oversubscribed and went to ballot, with the showcase opening and closing ceremonies among the events declared sold out.
About 1.8 million people in Britain and the European Union made bids for 20 million tickets during a six-week window, with only 6.6 million on offer.
The system has been criticised for being too vague and weighted towards more wealthy applicants with the means to apply for hundreds, even thousands, of pounds worth of tickets.
