Commonwealth Games tickets mostly sold

Almost 70 per cent of tickets to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games have been sold.

Organisers say with just over 100 days until the March 15-26 Games, ticket sales were in "fantastic shape". A new round of sales started on October 15, and Games chief executive John Harnden said it had pushed the total number of allocated tickets to 863,319 - or 69 per cent of those available.

Tickets to the swimming, diving, basketball, cycling, gymnastics, netball and final for the rugby sevens are sold out.