(ATR) The 12th Paralympic Games are heading into the final four days of competition in the same uneventful manner which marked the wrap-up of the Athens Olympics nearly a month ago.
?Flawless? is how one Athens 2004 official describes the past seven days.
China, the outright winner in the medal count, has 80 going into the final weekend of competition.
International Paralympic Committee spokesman Miriam Wilkens tells Around the Rings.com that ticket sales have now topped 650,000 against an original target of 400,000 tickets.
This weekend will bring German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to the Paralympics as well as the Queen of Spain. Track and field kingpin Lamine Diack visited the Athens Paralympics earlier this week.
More on the Paralympics and the week?s Olympic news in the September 24 issue of Around the Rings.com, for subscribers only.
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