In the 2000 Paralympic Games, Spain's men's paralympic basketball team won the gold medal in the intellectually disabled division. It was later discovered that many of the players on that Spanish squad were, in fact, not disabled. The Spanish were forced to return their medals.
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Spain's Paralympic basketball team
