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Sat 08 Aug 2008Spanish get it wrong again
FIVE RINGED CIRCUS: THE SPANISH basketball team have been criticised by the IOC for their ill-conceived newspaper advert ahead of the Games. What did they do? Why all the players were pictured pulling slant-eyed gestures.
That's a touch spooky as it was the Spanish team that were stripped of their medals in 2000, when able athletes were found to be impersonating the intellectually disabled at the Sydney Paralympics. That incident has been cited as one of the "most outrageous moments in sport history".
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