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The London Olympics and Paralympics look like they might be costing $600 million less than previously thought!

That seems absolutely ahmayzing until you learn the total projected cost of the games is still $14.2 BILLION!

So they originally thought it'd cost them $14.8 billion. So it's a win, sort of.

Unless you knew that the original amount they planned to spend was

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Ever heard of Murderball?!

No, it's not some made-up sport from a movie or something.

It's wheelchair rugby and it's one of the most brutal sports out there.

They use their wheelchairs more like

Tags: battle, crazy, fight, murderball, paralympics, paralyzed, rugby, sport, wheelchair

OMG!

What a ridiculous shot!

Disabled British ping pong player David Wetherill was playing Thomasz Kusiak from Germany.

They were in the middle of a good volley when the German worked Wetherill to one side of the table and then smacked the ball to the other.

No one expected Wetherill to dive out to save the ball and we're sure even less expected him to actually get the ball back on the table!

So did the German return it? Or did Wetherill get the point?

Check out the video (above) to find out!

Tags: ball, british, disabled, germany, man, paralympics, ping pong, play, playing, ridiculous, score, shot, table tennis

Prince Harry kept it in his pants long enough to make a public appearance at the Paralympics! Ha!

He was spotted hanging out with several Paralympians, including Jessica-Jane Applegate.

Applegate won the gold medal in swimming in the controversial intellectually disabled classification.

The classification has been controversial since Spain had a gold medal winning team at Sydney in 2000 where none of the players had any intellectual impairment and one was even a professional basketball player!

That's awful!

Applegate actually has Asperger's syndrome, which is on the autism spectrum, so she was legit!

Losers (like Spain's cheater team) get embarrassed and are awful, winners get to meet Prince Harry!

Way to go, Paralympians!

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: athlete, gold, medal, olympics, paralympics, prince, prince harry, royal, swimming, winner

Stephen Hawking, one of the smartest men alive today, will be narrating the opening ceremony of the Paralympics!

The whole point of the opener is to "challenge our perceptions."

Tags: amazing, british, challenge, disabled, men, music, olympic, Paralympics, people, revolution, show, stephen hawking, story, strong, volunteer, watch

Oscar Pistorius feels like the next 12 days could change the world — while talking about the Paralympic Games.

Specifically he things that the world will learn a lot from Britain's enlightened approach to hosting the 2012 Paralympics.

Here's what he said:

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This is fantastic news!

Those three members of the Jodanian Paralympic team charged with sex crimes in Northern Ireland have been DROPPED and will NOT be participating in the games.

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