More than one million Paralympic tickets still unsold

The Paris Paralympics begin on 28 August

More than one million tickets for the Paris Paralympic Games remain on sale, organisers have said.

There is a 17-day gap between the end of the Olympics on 11 August and the start of the Paralympics on 28 August.

While a record 9.5 million out of 10 million tickets have been sold to Olympic audiences at Paris 2024, only 1.3 million of an available 2.3 million tickets have been sold for the Paralympics.

Organisers hope the success of the Olympics will encourage further ticket sales over the coming weeks.

"Normally in the last week of the Olympics and immediately after the closing ceremony of the Olympics normally there is a peak," Andrew Parsons, president of the International Paralympic Committee, told BBC Sport.

"That's what we saw in Rio, we saw that in London, we saw that in Beijing. This is what we expect.

"We believe that Parisians that were not in Paris during the [Olympic] Games will have that feeling of 'I want to experience that as well' and they will do that during the Paralympics."

Organisers will reconfigure stadiums across Paris for people with disabilities following the conclusion of the Olympics.

The Paralympics run for 11 days and finish on 8 September.