Spanish Paralympic Basketball Team
Apparently, cheating in the Paralympics is a more common occurrence than people thought. During the 2000 Paralympic’s, the Spanish basketball team was discovered that they cheated in order to win the gold medal. Thanks to a Spanish journalist, it was discovered that most of the team weren’t checked as to whether they had a mental disability.
Spanish Paralympic Basketball Team
After the investigation, they found 10 of the 12 basketball players were in fact, not mentally disabled. Sounds similar to the plot of Johnny Knoxville’s The Ringer.
SMU Death Penalty
Southern Methodist University or SMU was giving huge amounts of money to their players from both the college and boosters. When this was uncovered in 1986, they found this violation of the NCAA rules had been going on for 16 years. For the first and only time in history, the NCAA gave SMU the death penalty for the 1987 season, where the team couldn’t play any games.
SMU Death Penalty
Then the following year, they didn’t even have enough players to form a team, so didn’t play that season either. From then on for 20 years, SMU didn’t have one winning season.
