The Fake Paralympians: 6.Fallout
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
After years in the wilderness, athletes with a learning disability are back at the London 2012 Paralympics - and Dan is among them. There are new tests designed to stop cheating. Do they work? And why, 21 years on from the basketball scandal, are there still fewer medals for intellectual impairment athletes than there were at Sydney 2000? Plus Dan catches up one last time with Ray, the genuinely disabled captain of the infamous Spanish basketball team. The scandal has taken a big toll on his life.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dan Pepper. I'm an ex-Parlempic swimmer from the northwest of England. |
| 0:07.0 | At the prime of my swimming career as a world champion in multiple events, but this coincided with the total ban on my category |
| 0:16.8 | at the Paralympics. I have an intellectual disability. Athletes like me were excluded from Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 after a massive |
| 0:28.9 | cheating scandal at Sydney 2000. So I missed out on my best chance to win a Paralympic medal. |
| 0:36.0 | It's fair to say that the scandal ruined my swimming career. |
| 0:41.0 | Even at the Tokyo Games there weren't as many medals in my category as there were 21 years |
| 0:50.5 | ago. |
| 0:52.1 | In the fake Paralympians I'm finding out exactly what happened and why it |
| 0:58.3 | left sort of devastating legacy for learning disability sports. |
| 1:07.0 | Previously, If Fernando Martine, the, admitted he was guilty and he was the main actor of the whole plot, |
| 1:20.0 | the rest of the defendants would not be tied. |
| 1:23.6 | And then the prosecution understood that this was appropriate. |
| 1:30.8 | He seemed like a nice guy, I think he took us all for a ride. |
| 1:36.0 | From the BBC World Service, this is the Fake Paralympians. |
| 1:42.0 | Episode 6. Paralympians. |
| 1:45.0 | Episode 6. |
| 1:47.0 | Fall out. It is now eight years since Fernando Martin was found by a Spanish court to have |
| 1:58.1 | masterminded the whole plot and he's never spoken publicly about the ruling until now. |
| 2:05.0 | Before the end of this final episode of the fake Paralympians, |
| 2:10.0 | we'll hear what he has to say for himself, |
| 2:12.0 | and it's pretty shocking. |
| 2:14.8 | But first, a bit more about the legacy of the scandal. |
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