Joyous moments of hard work being paid off in medals, emotional moments of missing out on the awards, and conspiracies involving fraud and cheating.

2000 spanish paralympic basketball team. Spain was in the final stages of selecting a team of disabled athletes to represent the nation in the 2000 paralympics games in sidney, australia. Spain competed at the 2000 summer. By the end of the 2000 paralympic games in sydney.

Spain won basketball gold at the 2000 paralympics. It was one of the lowest acts committed on an australian sporting field when a team of spanish basketballers conned their way to a gold medal at the sydney 2000 paralympics. A spanish gold medallist accuses the nation's paralympic team of fielding athletes with no disabilties in order to win medals at sydney.

Usa baseball wins gold | sydney 2000. Martin vicente has now denied. It was summer of 2000.

So will the athens games, starting tomorrow, be any. After spain's intellectual disability basketball team won gold at the sydney 2000 paralympic games, it emerged that just two out of the squad of 12 players genuinely had a. Jul 15, 2021 · the first paralympic men’s basketball tournament for those with intellectual disabilities took place in.

None of the 12 players was mentally disabled as represented. He was fined €5,400 (£4,630/$6,320) by a spanish court in 2013, with charges against 18 other officials and team members dropped. Spain’s intellectual disabled men’s basketball team that won 2000 paralympic gold was at the center of the scandal.

It was the scandal that shamed the 2000 paralympics. The revolting spanish sham at the 2000. The most infamous example of paralympic cheating was by spain’s basketball team at the 2000 sydney paralympics: