Sydney Paralympians relive Spanish basketball cheating scandal

It was one of the lowest acts committed on an Australian sporting field when a team of Spanish basketballers conned their way to a gold medal at the Sydney 2000 Paralympics.

Through a brazen conspiracy that took years to fully resolve, able-bodied team members posed as athletes with an intellectually disability (ID) to win.

The fraud resulted in a controversial worldwide ban on intellectually disabled Paralympic sports…