The Paralympics these days generally follow on the Olympic Games, and it is amazing how much cheating goes on. Cheating first came to the fore when, after the Sydney 2000 Paralympics, the Spanish team who won the basketball gold medal in the mentally disabled category later admitted that they were all just students who had been faking that they were mentally disabled.

The most recent case involves Monique van der Vorst, a Dutch lady, who because of her alleged disability took part in the hand cycling, where people cannot use their legs. She won two silver medals in the Beijing Olympics, despite the fact that rumours were that she had been seen walking, on the dance floor and never had any problem with her legs. Her miracle story improved considerably and she proved to be such a good cyclist and even using her legs, that she is signed by Rabobank, the women’s professional cycling team.
She now claims that in 2010 she was in an accident and that her spine was suddenly knocked into place as a result of this accident and she could once again walk. Her legs which had wasted away terribly recovered miraculously and she became a professional cyclist! It is really sad in a world where people are fighting against so many disabilities that there are other people that are so eager to win something, just anything, that they will even fake disability so that they can take part in disabled sports, when they are not disabled, and obviously have an advantage over people who are genuinely disabled, to say the least.