One of the most insane international basketball scandals: When Spain’s intellectual disabled mens basketball team that won 2000 Paralympic gold was found to be faking their disabilities, got charged with fraud, and got the entire intellectual disabled basketball category removed from the Paralympics

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1. lopea182 9 months ago

   >Spain was ordered to return its basketball gold medals in December 2000. It won all of its games at the 2000 Paralympics by at least 15 points, *including a 67-point drubbing of Japan. Japan also lost by 105 points and 79 points to other nations.*

   Geez! I understand this is intellectually disabled athletes we’re talking about, but was the Japan team trying to score on their own basket?

2. vrkhfkb 9 months ago

   Why would anyone do this 😂. Do gold medalists get government subsidies for life?

3. Next-Firefighter-753 9 months ago

   Another example of assholes ruining it for inoccent people.

4. xitimofo 9 months ago

   Ironically, it would take an intellectually disabled person to pull and get caught for something like this.

5. AbshirThePoet 9 months ago

   I feel bad for laughing at the thought of these dudes acting intellectually disabled lmao

6. Ghosts_of_the_maze 9 months ago

   “So sad”

   [Throws down a 360 Tomahawk dunk from the foul line]

   “That poor kid’s got the worst stutter I’ve ever seen”

7. scene_missing 9 months ago

   Smurfing in CoD or SC2 is bad enough, but doing it IRL makes you a total scumbag 😂

8. eutectic_h8r 9 months ago

   I heard about this from that Johnny Knoxville documentary

9. WeaknessOne9646 9 months ago

   The name of the captain of that team?

   Eric Cartmanez

10. coloradobryant 9 months ago

    they had a league for stupid people

11. jeffhplays 9 months ago

    And here I am thinking the Spain men’s team photo in Beijing probably couldn’t be beaten

12. IanicRR 9 months ago

    Spain seems to be good at getting into some hot water at international competitions. This. The FIFA Women’s World Cup thing going on now. That time the entire team did the “slanted Asian eyes” for a photo before the Olympics in China.

13. HamBoy2 9 months ago

    This is like The Ringer. All-time great movie but would never be allowed to come out in this day and age

14. Alchion 9 months ago

    they went full cartman

15. fugginstrapped 9 months ago

    Sounds like the team was in fact in the right category allll along.

16. KevinDurantLebronnin 9 months ago

    “If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin'” was the motto of my high school football coach. We went 2-8 that year. Could have picked up some tips here.

17. Lvl99Cheerio 9 months ago

    Buncha Cartmans and Knoxvilles

18. BsharpMaj13 9 months ago

    I remember 2 things from this olympic year. Vince Carter jumped over a guy and this

19. EPLemonSqueezy 9 months ago

    Was Cartman on the team?

20. szboy422 9 months ago

    Sct Brn

21. succ_jitties 9 months ago

    In high school I played against an intellectually disabled team. Everyone usually knows that, although they are always in the league, they end in last place and it’s generally treated as an exhibition. Except my 16 year old brain wasn’t quite getting it.

    Sweetest triple double I ever got. I even hit them with a Euro Step. Ten years later, it definitely doesn’t feel as good, but back then I hated everyone who said “take it easy on them”.

22. Wazzoo1 9 months ago

    I think it was the 2008 Spanish team that posed for a team photo and they all did the slant eyes pose because the Olympics were in China. Not a great look.

23. deadhotpiss 9 months ago

    At minimum you have to be *emotionally* disabled to go through with a plan like this. GIVE THEM BACK THE GOLD YOU COWARDS.

24. LiaM_CS 9 months ago

    Damn, they literally ruined it for everyone else

25. mansonsturtle 9 months ago

    Damn Cartman at it again.

26. wallace6464 9 months ago

    you are telling me the wringer was a documentary?

27. DravenPrime 9 months ago

    It really is bizarre that they thought they would get away with it. Did they not know they’d be photographed and those photos would be shared everywhere?

28. Sti8man7 9 months ago

    Do they have to take acting lessons? Or Issit free interpretation of “intellectual disability”

29. nikop 9 months ago

    This is like the plot to Juwanna Mann but with disabled people instead of women.

30. debaserr 9 months ago

    Pretty lame how these fools got the whole category removed from the games.

31. elf-_- 9 months ago

    bring back the colosseum, it’s done

32. Turon26 9 months ago

    that’s sadly just another tuesday in the disabled games space.

33. djama 9 months ago

    I remember one of the players came out and gave an interview, he said they were ordered to act and wave hands in different directions, randomly during the game and medal ceremony

34. imtayloronreddit 9 months ago

    really, nobody posted the Austin McConnell vid yet??

    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5F_ha7d-PI&ab_channel=AustinMcConnell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5F_ha7d-PI&ab_channel=AustinMcConnell)

35. b_rabbit_mnm 9 months ago

    This sounds like that one south park episode!

36. Whatever801 9 months ago

    LMAO

37. Sho1kan 9 months ago

    But we all Spaniards are mentally disabled though

38. belizeanheat 9 months ago

    That’s so Spain

39. fagstick123 9 months ago

    This reminds me of when men faked being women and playing women’s sports. Weird times.

40. 9dreamis 9 months ago

    Got damnit

41. redux44 9 months ago

    I can see one guy being crazy and shameless enough to do this, but a whole basketball squad with coaching staff?

    That’s something else.

42. its_me_question_guy 9 months ago

    These are the same guys who would change genders just to win in today’s game.

43. delightfuldinosaur 9 months ago

    Idk how these guys could live with themselves after that.

    Like cool what an accomplishment.