The Paralympic Games are the second largest sporting event in the world with 2.5m tickets expected to be sold.
London saw a wealth of artistic and cultural events during the Olympics, and that will continue during the Paralympic Games.
Mr Pistorius is a double amputee who won gold at the Paralympic Games as well as competing in the Olympics.
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Great Britain's youngest gold medallist of the Paralympic Games has been honoured with a gold postbox in his home town.
The 1988 to 1992 period, Seoul to Barcelona, is the point at which the Paralympic Games started to really get serious.
Sophie Wells, a dressage rider on Britain's equestrian team for the Paralympic Games, calls Pistorius a "brilliant" ambassador for disabled athletes.
The disabled athletes and disabled children joining sports clubs have benefited from the Paralympic Games, but most of us are really struggling.
Other Olympians appointed MBEs include Buckinghamshire's Pamela Relph and Naomi Riches, who raced in the mixed coxed four at the Paralympic Games.
In theory, the Truce starts seven days before the Olympic games begins and ceases seven days after the close of the Paralympic Games.
Commuters are being urged to make alternative travel arrangements for the second time this summer as London prepares to host the Paralympic Games.
The ODA press office's phone line was answered by an automated message saying it was closed until after the Paralympic Games end in September.
Then he heard Paralympic organisers were searching for a disabled pilot to conduct the flypast at the Paralympic Games opening ceremony for London 2012.
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The Olympic golf competition will see medals awarded for men and women and the sport will also feature in the Paralympic Games in Rio.
Some expect it as early as next Monday, but think David Cameron will wait until after the Paralympic Games, which end on September 9.
In December former Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson said the Paralympic Games would "disappear off the face of the earth" if a merger took place.
Channel 4 will deliver over 150 hours of coverage of the Paralympic Games and will cover key disability sport and sporting events in the run-up.
Soon after the London Olympics, Pistorius led his national team onto the track as South African Flag-bearer in the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games.
The IPC World Championships is the most prestigious event for disability athletes outside the Paralympic Games, with 1500 athletes competing from 77 countries in 240 events.
Unsold tickets for the Paralympic Games are also set to go on sale from 11:00 BST on 21 May, with further details yet to be announced.
While he failed to win a medal there, he smashed a record to win the men's 400-meter race in the Paralympic Games a few weeks later.
Mrs Miller defended the involvement of Atos as a major sponsor of the Paralympic Games, saying that such sponsorship was essential to mounting large sporting and cultural events.
On 20 August, the market will float over to Little Venice near Paddington in time for the Paralympic Games, taking place in London from 29 Aug to 9 September.
This year the firm backed both the Olympic Games - as a member of the IOC top partners programme, and also the Paralympic Games, which it has supported since 1992.
Commuters have been warned they could face heavy congestion with the arrival of the Paralympic Games Torch Relay in London and the opening ceremony at the Olympic Park on 29 August.
Essentially, this is the best chance to see elite disability sport outside the Paralympic Games there's ever been, the tickets are immensely good value and people will be able to see top-class sport.
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He first competed in the Paralympic Games in Athens in 2004, where he won gold in the 200m and bronze in the 100m, after having only taken up the sport eight months previously.
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G4S will report this month on the outcome of its review into the games contract and has said previously it didn't anticipate a staffing shortfall for the Paralympic Games, which ended on Sept. 9.
Mr. Novak, who has competed in three Paralympics, said Mr. Pistorius generated so much publicity and attention that, for the first time in London last year, "the Paralympic Games are the same" as the Olympic Games.
It will make its way slowly down The Mound, past the giant symbol of the Paralympic Games and cross Princes Street on to Hanover Street where a post-box painted gold in Sir Chris's honour stands, officials said.
"I don't know what happened there but I'm shocked, I'm really shocked, because somehow he really carries the flag of the Paralympic Games and Paralympians, " Eduard Novak, a Romanian para-cyclist who won a gold medal in the London games, said in a phone interview Thursday.
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