00:00As he played against the athletes with intellectual disabilities, it did feel pretty messed up.
00:04Carlos knew that he wasn't meant to be there. He didn't have a disability.
00:08But he still somehow convinced himself that he was doing the right thing.
00:12See, from the moment the Sydney 2000 Paralympics began, the Spanish team had dominated basketball ID.
00:18They shattered the Japanese team 87-20.
00:21And as they continued against the other teams in their group, Spain was unstoppable.
00:25Of course, Carlos wasn't surprised.
00:27After all, he'd played semi-professional basketball throughout his youth against some of the best players in Spain.
00:33So even though he was up against the best Paralympic competitors in the world, he still knew it was an
00:38unfair fight.
00:39But he had made it this far, and it still seemed like nobody suspected a thing.
00:43Heck, the Spanish team's own captain, Ramon Torres, didn't even know what Carlos was hiding.
00:47So Carlos felt like if he could just get to the end of the games without getting caught, he could
00:52fly back home and finally make everything right.
00:55As the games continued, Spain remained unbeaten, and they even made it into the finals against Russia.
01:00But the final game was much more competitive than the ones that came before.
01:04Russia put up a really strong fight.
01:06Surprisingly strong, Carlos felt.
01:08He could tell that he wasn't the only one faking a disability at this Paralympic Games.
01:14However, despite the fight, the Spanish team came away with the win.
01:17Captain Ramon Torres was overjoyed.
01:19He couldn't believe what his team had accomplished.
01:22But as Carlos awkwardly accepted his completely undeserved Paralympic gold medal and the press cameras flashed, the biggest secret that
01:29Carlos had ever kept in his life was about to be front page news.
01:33As a matter of fact, Carlos was going to make sure of it.
01:37Because, as it turns out, he wasn't the only person in the Spanish team who had faked their disability.
01:42But he was the only person who had supposedly done it for a noble reason.
01:46Tap here to see how the truth eventually unraveled.
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