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IAAF Championships Set For Attendance Records With Usain Bolt Finale

Organizers of the IAAF World Championships in London this weekend "confirmed the event will smash records as the biggest World Championships in history." More than 660,000 tickets have been sold for the event, which begins tonight, "far exceeding the previous attendance record of 417,156 sold" for '09 in Berlin. A "quarter of a million people" will fill Olympic Stadium for the opening three days of competition, which "will feature Usain Bolt attempting to bow out" of world-level competition with a successful defense of his 100-meter title (London TELEGRAPH, 7/30).

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