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Article: More than 4,200 athletes to compete at Beijing Paralympics.
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- UNB - United News of Bangladesh
- Article date:
- August 24, 2008
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BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua/UNB) More than 4,200 athletes from 148 countries and regions will attend the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, said Tang Xiaoquan, executive vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) here on Sunday.
In addition, more than 2,500 referees and more than 4,000 journalists and media technicians will gather in Beijing for the event, said Tang at a press conference. She added that there will also be 30,000 volunteers working for the games.
More than 480,000 tickets were sold for the games, which has a total of 1.66 million tickets available for selling. About 16,000 tickets of no-barrier seats are ...