Rio Paralympics faces crisis amid 'major budget cuts'
The Paralympic Games will go ahead next month but faces major budget cuts, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced just 19 days before the opening ceremony.
Here are the key developments:
- Rio's organising committee has not raised enough money to fund the Games
- Delayed travel grants mean 10 countries may struggle to get teams to Rio
- The Deorodo Olympic Park will be closed and dismantled
- Cuts will also be made to transport and the workforce
- IPC President Sir Philip Craven said the Games had 'never faced circumstances like this'
- Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson said Paralympians are being treated like 'second-class citizens'
- The British Paralympic Association will take a full team to Rio
