Spanish Paralympic Basketball Team Was Caught Not Being Disabled

The Committee also ordered members of the ID basketball team to return the gold medal they won at the 2000 Games. During their entire Paralympic journey most of the Spanish players pretended to have an intellectual disability.

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Members of the Spanish intellectually disabled basketball team with their medals after winning the Sydney 2000 Paralympics.

Spanish paralympic basketball team was caught not being disabled. The first Paralympic mens basketball tournament for those with intellectual disabilities took place in Sydney in October 2000 and was marked by the impressive performance of the Spanish team. The Paralympic committee investigated allegations that the players suffered no. So essentially hes one of the most detestable human beings youre ever likely to.

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Before the Paralympics existed several athletes competed in the Olympic Games who were classified as disabled. A Spanish gold medallist has accused the nations Paralympic team of fielding athletes with no disabilties in order to win medals. In the world of Paralympic sports thats cheating.

Spain had stacked its team with 10 out of 12 able-bodied players. Spains Paralympic team is under investigation. Ribagorda said he was invited to compete with the basketball team just months prior to the Paralympics despite being an able-bodied man.

Ten out of twelve players on the team possessed no mental impairment at all. The fraud was exposed in the aftermath of the games by one of Spains players Carlos Ribagorda a. Spain had stacked its team with 10 out of 12 able-bodied players.

One of the Spanish players has admitted 10 of the 12 basketball players were not intellectually disabledSupplied. So will the Athens Games starting tomorrow be any cleaner. Spain was stripped of their intellectual disability basketball gold medals shortly after the Games closed after Carlos Ribagorda a member of the victorious team and an undercover journalist revealed to the Spanish business magazine Capital that most of his colleagues had not undergone medical tests to ensure that they had a disability.

The 2000 Spanish Paralympic Basketball ID team was not who they claimed to be. He also shared that he not required to take a test for learning disabilities. The final confirmation unveiled that 10 of the 12 team members were not disabled with the president of the Spanish Paralympic Committee accepting total responsibility after previously denying the allegations.

The scandal broke in November 2000 when Carlos Ribagorda a member of Spains gold medal-winning intellectually handicapped basketball team in. The Committee found that 10 of the 12 members of the Spanish intellectually disabled basketball team did not meet the standards for such players. As the final seconds ticked by the team won.

In November 2000 everyone was delighted to see Spains team of intellectually disabled basketball players shine on the court. Carlos Ribagorda a member of Spains victorious basketball team believes that nine team-mates did not undergo any tests to check for. The fraud was exposed in the aftermath of the games by one of Spains players Carlos Ribagorda a.

Victorious in all its matches by at least 15 points the Spanish team surprised all observers even crushing the Russian favorites in the final 87-63. The Spanish Paralympic basketball team with other gold medal winners in Sydney in 2000. But most of the team wasnt disabled - and they werent the only ones.

There was even some pride at wearing the Spanish team strip Ribagorda told The Guardian in 2004. Spain won basketball gold at the 2000 Paralympics. Only two of the 12 athletes suffered from disability.

The jig was up.

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