A record 9.56 million tickets were sold for the Paris Olympics while the Paralympics achieved their second-highest ticket sales of 2.58 million, the local organizing committee said Friday.Both sets of final numbers represent about 95 percent of tickets that went on sale. The games were a success in all aspects, Tony Estanguet, head of the committee, told a press conference in Saint-Denis, just outside Paris.The first opening ceremony outside a stadium in Summer Olympic history went ahead without major trouble after a massive number of police officers and soldiers were deployed on the street…READ FULL ARTICLE
