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Shweta Pandey
The prices for next year's London 2012 Paralympic tickets are due to be announced later.
Two million tickets for 20 sports will go on sale from 9 to 30 September.
More than 4,200 athletes from about 150 countries are expected to participate at the Games from 29 August to 9 September 2012.
The announcement follows Olympic ticket sales, which saw about 1.8 million people apply for 6.6 million tickets.
Those tickets were hugely over-subscribed, organisers said, with the total demand topping 20 million tickets.
Adult prices for the Olympics ranged from £20 to £2,012 for the best ticket for the opening ceremony, with some concessions available.
The Paralympic games will be staged in many of the Olympic venues, including the Olympic stadium (athletics), aquatics centre (swimming) and velodrome (cycling), as well as the likes of Eton Dorney (rowing), Weymouth (sailing) and Greenwich Park (equestrian para-dressage).
The Olympic Park will also stage the five-a-side and seven-a-side football at the Olympic hockey centre and goalball at the Olympic handball arena, as well as wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball at the Olympic basketball arena, although some basketball will also be held at the North Greenwich Arena.
The ExCel exhibition centre in the Docklands will host boccia, judo, sitting volleyball, wheelchair fencing, table tennis and powerlifting. The wheelchair tennis events will be staged at Eton Manor while the archery and shooting will both be held at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games is expected to announce how tickets will be allocated on Wednesday.
For the Olympic Games, there has been criticism of the prices, the ballot system and the fact that money is taken from accounts before applicants know which events they have secured.
Applicants were originally told to make sure they had enough money in their accounts from 10 May to 10 June.
But organisers now say people will not be billed until next Monday at the earliest while they carry out ballots for oversubscribed events.
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