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    Paralympic Games Tickets Set For Sell Out

    More than two million Paralympic tickets have already been sold and more will be made available before the Games begin on August 29.

    On the London 2012 website the only tickets currently available are for the opening and closing ceremonies.

    Many sports fans who failed to get tickets for the Olympics were so keen to see events in the Olympic Park that they snapped up Paralympic tickets months ago.

    The chairman of organising body Locog told a news conference: "I think when people see the Paralympic games they will be amazed by the quality of sport that they see."

    Channel 4, which bought the rights to show the Games, has cheekily advertised them by thanking the Olympics "for a great warm up", but has won many admirers for a promotional trail called Meet The Superhumans , showing a variety of British Paralympians in action.

    Stuart Cosgrove, the channel's Director of Creative Adversity, told Sky News: "The backstory of many of the athletes taking part in the Paralympics is hugely powerful, so there is great drama here in the stories of some of the competitors.

    "A lot of people have already got the summer 2012 bug. Team GB did so brilliantly well in the Olympics and we know that GB in the Paralympics came second in Beijing, so they're already off to a flying start.

    "We're massively excited, there's more gold to come."

    One of those taking part in the goalball event is Georgie Bullen.  She said: "It's going to be amazing. Every time I think about it I get butterflies in my stomach."

    Georgie is partially sighted, but during goalball all competitors wear blindfolds to ensure equality.

    The ball contains a bell, so participants have to rely on their sense of hearing. 

    "We're running around throwing ourselves across the floor, running round each other blindfolded," she said. 

    "And most people watch it and they think 'I could never do that', let alone think that person is disabled."

    Craig Hunter, Britain's Chef de Mission says the Games will inspire both disabled and able bodied viewers.

    He told Sky: "We have a performance ambition to be second in the table winning more medals across more sports, but we also have a perception ambition which is to use the power of port to change the way people think, feel and behave towards disability."

    The Games begin on August 29 and run until September 9.

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