The Fake Paralympians: 2. Caught
Some of the gold-medal-winning team are recognised back home - and they're not disabled
The Documentary Podcast · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
A basketball journalist in Spain recognises three of the players in the gold-medal-winning intellectual disability basketball team - and they are not disabled. He has even played on the same team as one of them. But when he publishes his story in a national basketball magazine, the team’s organisers show certificates supposedly proving the players’ disability status. The denials continue until another of the players - who turns out to have been a journalist - publishes his own article exposing the fraud.