The ticket lottery for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics opened to residents of Japan on Thursday, but the online application process was slowed due to a surge in traffic to the official ticketing website.The website struggled from the moment it opened applications for the lottery at 10 a.m., with some ticket seekers experiencing difficulty logging in and others stuck in a queue of tens of thousands of applicants waiting for access.An onscreen message alerted users to significant wait times for much of the day as the website experienced "a very high volume of visitors" all hoping to clinch seats at t…READ FULL ARTICLE
