By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – With less than 21 days to go before the start of the Paralympic Games, organizers are scrambling to obtain extra funding and sell tickets to the competition events. The International Paralympic Committee has been holding meetings with both city and federal Brazilian officials so that additional funding may be obtained for the Games.
“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,” IPC President Philip . . .
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