Brett Wilson attacks the rim during a game in the basketball tournament for athletes with an intellectual disability at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics. Australia finished 6th of the 8 teams in the tournament. After the Games, the discovery that members of the Spanish gold medal team had cheated and did not have an intellectual disability led to the exclusion of athletes with an intellectual disability from the Paralympics until London in 2012.
Date: October 2000
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