RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) " Three weeks ago, organizers and event fans were worried that the 2016 Paralympics would not be well-attended. The 170,000 tickets sold for events at Olympic Park on Saturday, surpassed the one-day total for some days at recent Olympics. IPC spokesman Craig Spence said, referring to the 2012 London Paralympics, for which a record 2.7 million tickets were sold. Construction for the Rio 2016 museum will be underway soon, and the IPC is producing a Paralympic Rio 2016 film. Penn State and Georgia are partnering with The Associated Press to supplement coverage of the 2016 Paralympics.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 12, 2016 06:00 UTC