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.

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