At the 2000 Summer Paralympics, Spain entered a basketball team in the intellectual disability category and won gold. Months later, it came out that 10 of the 12 players on the team did not have an intellectual disability and had faked their IQ tests and disabilities. Spain was stripped of the medal, and the International Paralympic Committee suspended events for athletes with intellectual disabilities until the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
Weird-County8072 on
Shoutout to the journalist on the team who blew the whistle afterward. It takes a special kind of audacity to stand on a podium knowing you’re 100% able bodied.
hugothebear on
So was 2005’s The Ringer based on true events?
Pachanish on
In our collective defence, at that time , in a football infused country , anyone who played , liked or followed basketball was considered to be special …
( It’s still a shameful cringe worthy topic in Spain btw )
dead_meme_comrade on
Every time I think South Park is to ridiculous reality proves me wrong.
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At the 2000 Summer Paralympics, Spain entered a basketball team in the intellectual disability category and won gold. Months later, it came out that 10 of the 12 players on the team did not have an intellectual disability and had faked their IQ tests and disabilities. Spain was stripped of the medal, and the International Paralympic Committee suspended events for athletes with intellectual disabilities until the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
Shoutout to the journalist on the team who blew the whistle afterward. It takes a special kind of audacity to stand on a podium knowing you’re 100% able bodied.
So was 2005’s The Ringer based on true events?
In our collective defence, at that time , in a football infused country , anyone who played , liked or followed basketball was considered to be special …
( It’s still a shameful cringe worthy topic in Spain btw )
Every time I think South Park is to ridiculous reality proves me wrong.