The Paralympics Has a Massive Cheating Problem

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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When the Paralympics begin in Paris on Aug. 28, there will be no shortage of feel-good storylines. But two whistleblowers tell Pablo Torre Finds Out a very different story: about how widespread cheating has destroyed the integrity of the Games themselves. Paralympians are allegedly manipulating the system by exaggerating their impairments, lying to classifiers, and tanking tests — a fraud known as “classification doping.” But one athlete has decided, at long last, to fight this problem in court. American handcyclist David Berling sits down with PTFO correspondent Tim Rohan for an exclusive interview about the lawsuit that might change everything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what
0:05.0	this sound is. I was appalled and horrified that people would want to do that. Why would you want to do that?
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0:56.8	This one this investigation. I do want to sort of provide some backdrop for it because I'm a person who's generally pretty numb to corruption, to cheating.
1:06.0	We've done Olympic match fixing scandals.
1:09.0	We've done alleged mortgage fraud.
1:11.0	We've done stat inflation in the NBA, all those stories have made me sort of
1:14.8	just elephant skin towards most things. This one, though, has gotten to me.
1:21.8	Yeah, the story, the headline,
1:24.0	is about cheating at the Paralympics.
1:26.2	You called it a doozy.
1:27.4	Yeah, it was, this one was a doozy.
1:30.0	The very first thing that I just need you to know about the Paralympics is that
1:38.2	they are the most feel-good event of the entire global sports calendar.
1:44.4	And I don't think that race is particularly close.
1:47.7	The Paralympics celebrate athletes who have all overcome a wide range of disabilities and impairments.
1:54.5	And each of these individuals, in their own way, is incredibly impressive.
2:00.1	Since 2008, the Paralympics have been held in the same host city as the Olympics, just weeks
2:05.3	after the Olympic closing ceremony, which means that later this month in Paris,
2:10.1	the Paralympians will all get to compete in the same venues as the Olympians, which is a phenomenal premise.
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