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  2. Cheating at the Paralympic Games - Wikipedia

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    Cheating at the Paralympic Games has caused scandals that have significantly changed the way in which the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) manages the events. Testing for performance-enhancing drugs has become increasingly strict and more widespread throughout the Games, with powerlifting seeing the most positive results.

  3. Basketball ID at the 2000 Summer Paralympics - Wikipedia

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    The Basketball ID event at the 2000 Paralympic Games were marred by one of sport's biggest controversies which saw a classification of athlete removed from the next two Paralympic games. Fernando Martin Vicente , former head of the Spanish Federation for Mentally Handicapped Sports, allowed athletes with no disabilities to compete at the Games ...

  4. Spain at the 2000 Summer Paralympics - Wikipedia

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    Spain's intellectual disability basketball team won the tournament and gold medals, but these medals were soon stripped from the team. Shortly after the Games closed, Carlos Ribagorda, a member of the victorious team and an undercover journalist, revealed to the Spanish business magazine Capital that ten of the twelve members of the team were "ringers", that is, basketball players who were not ...

  5. Olympic scandals: The revolting Spanish sham at the 2000 ...

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    A few weeks after Spain’s victory in the basketball tournament for the mentally disabled, an undercover journalist revealed the unthinkable: 10 of the 12 sacred players were in fact ...

  6. Team USA men's wheelchair basketball opens 2024 ... - AOL

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    The defending gold medal-winning U.S. men's wheelchair basketball opened the 2024 Paris Paralympics with a win against Spain on Thursday. ... Trevon Jenifer of Team USA celebrates after scoring in ...

  7. Spain at the Paralympics - Wikipedia

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    Competitors have represented Spain in ten of the twelve Summer Paralympics, missing only the first two events in Rome and Tokyo. Spain's breakthrough year came in 1992 when they hosted the event; their medal tally rocketed with a level of performance that would be maintained for the following two events.

  8. Headlined by 6:30 p.m. Friday night matchup set to feature a postgame autograph and photo session, the nation’s best Paralympic basketball players will square off against Australia this weekend ...

  9. List of Olympic Games scandals, controversies and incidents

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    Richard McLaren published two reports in 2016 claiming that from "at least late 2011 to 2015" more than 1,000 Russian competitors in various sports, including summer, winter, and Paralympic sports, benefited from a doping cover-up. [191] As of 25 December 2015, 43 Russian athletes who competed in Sochi have been disqualified, with 13 medals ...