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On Monday at 6 PM, the window for application for Paralympic tickets closed. Since then, games organisers Locog have revealed that A total of 116,000 people have applied for 1.14 million tickets. It is the first time in history that a Paralympic games has sold out and reports that some sessions in 16 of the 20 sports have in fact been over subscribed.

This is, of course, assuming that all of our Paralympic athletes haven't been "cured" by Late August 2012. In the past seven days we've read about at least three possible disability breakthroughs. There's the drug which 'aids albino people's sight'. The Telegraph reports that and ´óÏó´«Ã½ health reports on research which suggests that coffee may ease depression.

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