A former Olympic medal-winning boxer has spoken of his anger after failing in his application for tickets and a volunteering place at next year’s games.

Robert Wells, a former super-heavyweight bronze medallist, applied for tickets along with millions of other hopefuls only to be told he had not secured one single ticket.

The 50-year-old, from Carshalton, even recently completed an Olympic volunteering qualification only to be overlooked for a position helping out at the London 2012 Olympics.

Mr Wells said: “I’m one of the few people from Sutton to have won an Olympic medal, so if I can’t get one what chance have as anyone else got.

“It’s also really taking the mickey enticing people on to this course then not providing them with a position or any tickets or even a letter telling them they had been rejected.”

Although the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) announced they would grant veterans of the 1948 London Olympics a pair of complimentary tickets, many other former Olympians and their families have missed out in the much-maligned ballot system.

Carshalton and Wallington MP Tom Brake has has agreed to take up the case on his behalf and has written to Lord Coe asking him to reconsider his volunteer application. to reassess his case, after .

Mr Brake said: “I believe that we should be celebrating the great achievements of our former Olympians, not making them feel ignored and undervalued.

“It is unfair that someone who has flown the flag for British sport at the highest level, with such success, should be denied the chance to participate in or even attend the Games when they come here to London.

“With this in mind, I will be nominating Mr Wells to carry the Olympic Torch when it passes through London next July.”

Mr Wells even shared a dormitory with Lord Coe when they were Olympic teammates at the 1984 games.

He said: “I tried to have a chat with Lord Coe to say hello after when he presented our volunteer awards but, sadly, he had already left - it would’ve been nice to catch up.”

The former boxer won his medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, getting further in the competition than future world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis who competed for Canada.