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Rio 2016 Record Set As 133,000 Tickets For Paralympic Games Sold In One Day

Organizers of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games sold 133,000 tickets on Tuesday, the largest number of tickets they have ever sold in just one day. Demand for Paralympic tickets accelerated since the ending of the Olympic Games on Sunday. After selling 16,000 tickets last Saturday, organizers said that they sold 50,000 tickets on Sunday, 100,000 on Monday and then 133,000 on Tuesday. Int'l Paralympic Committee CEO Xavier Gonzalez said, "In the last 48 hours alone, we have almost doubled the number of tickets sold overall. It is fantastic to see the cariocas rallying around the Paralympics." A total of more than 600,000 tickets have been sold so far, over 20% of the 2.5 million tickets available (IPC).

OUT OF BOUNDS: The London TELEGRAPH reported Russian President Vladimir Putin "attacked the ban on his country from the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics as immoral and inhumane on Thursday." Russia was suspended on Aug. 7 over what IPC President Philip Craven called a "medals over morals" culture with evidence of state-sponsored doping. Putin said, "The decision to disqualify our Paralympians is outside the bounds of law, morality and humanity." He called the ruling against Russia "cynical" and claimed that "it even humiliates those who take such decisions." Putin said that special competitions "will be organized in Russia for banned Paralympic athletes with winners getting the same prizes they would have had from success in Rio" (TELEGRAPH, 8/25).

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