Spain’s intellectually disabled basketball team claimed the gold medal.

Cheating paralympics basketball. ( holly allison/tpi/shutterstock) the cheating claim has followed elliott, who. The most infamous example of paralympic cheating was by spain’s basketball team at the 2000 sydney paralympics: None of the 12 players was mentally disabled as represented.

Arguably the most direct victim of the cheating scandal was the team's captain, ramón. The most infamous classification cheating scandal transpired at the sydney 2000 paralympics. A former spanish basketball boss has been found guilty of fraud 13 years after he presided over one of the biggest scandals in sporting history.

Cheating at the paralympic games has caused scandals that have significantly changed the way in which the international paralympic committee (ipc) manages the events. In the 2000 sydney paralympics, spain bagged the gold medal. Today, let’s look back at the biggest and the lowest act of cheating committed on the world stage of the paralympics.

People with intellectual disabilities banned from the paralympic games for 12 years. But if a player pushes more. Having an attribute the coach needs to fill a team in goalball, wheelchair rugby or wheelchair basketball, where teams are made up of players of mixed ability.

Injured in afghanistan now targeting tokyo paralympic athletes paralympic games paralympics. Martin vicente has now denied. 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.

While taking responsibility for the cheating, the president of feddi also maintained, during his. Cheating at the paralympic games has caused scandals that have significantly changed the way in which the international paralympic committee (ipc) manages the events. The paralympic cheating scandal has one silver lining.