RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) " More cuts will be made to services for athletes at the Paralympics next month unless additional funding is rapidly secured for the cash-strapped games in Rio de Janeiro, officials said Monday. Crisis talks were held Monday by International Paralympic Committee President Philip Craven with the Brazilian government and Rio's mayor in a late attempt to preserve the quality of the games in recession-battered Brazil. Craven said an injunction prevents new public funding going toward the Paralympics unless the Rio 2016 organizing committee opens up its books. "Clearly, the simplest and easiest way around this is for the Rio 2016 organizing committee to be open and transparent with its financial records in order to allow this additional funding to come in." "If no extra funding is available then the organizing committee will have to implement further cuts to the Paralympic Games on top of the cuts we have already made alongside the IOC and Olympics."

Source: New Zealand Herald August 16, 2016 00:22 UTC