Lottery games' £100m for Olympics

The first scratch card was launched in July 2005

Lottery games designed to raise cash for the 2012 London Olympics have raised £100m, Lottery officials say.

It is now anticipated they will raise £118m by March, well ahead of the £110 originally forecast.

The scratch cards are designed to raise £750m of the £1.5bn Lottery funding package which will pay for new venues and infrastructure.

Sports programmes and Lottery good causes will contribute the remaining £750m to the package.

Olympic Lottery Distributor chairwoman Janet Paraskeva said there was still "a long way to go". She said: "In reaching £100m by the end of January the National Lottery is ahead of schedule in delivering funds to support London 2012.

"We are funding the Olympic Delivery Authority to create the facilities necessary for the Games and we are very impressed with the progress they are making."

The first Olympics scratch card, entitled Go for Gold, was launched in July 2005.