In the Sydney Paralympic basketball games, Spain dominated all other seven teams. According to Stolen Gold, they beat Portugal by 15, Brazil by 56, Japan by 67, Poland by 30, and Russia by 24.They were a great team, good enough to bring home the gold metal. But what people didn't know was that they were at a slight advantage.
To be qualified to compete in a Paralympic game, one's IQ level must be a 70 or below. Only two people on the entire basketball team met that criteria. Only two out of twelve players were actually eligible to play.
Only two weeks after the end of the games, Carlos Ribagorda wrote an article for Capitol, a Spanish business magazine exposing not only the team, but the Spanish Paralympic Committee(SPC) as well. In the article he explained that ten members of the team, himself included, were not handicap at all. The article also revealing the SPCs involvement, explaining that they were actually the ones who recruited the players. He also exposed Spanish participants from other events suchs as table tennis, track and field, and swimming for fraud as well.
Why you might ask? The only reason people ever came up with was for the thrill of winning. Is winning really worth losing all your morals. It was sick and devise stunt to pull. They must have known they'd get caught eventually.
The loss of their metals was not enough.
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