{"id":13656,"date":"2017-11-04T01:45:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T00:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/04\/taped-limbs-valium-and-cold-showers-paralympic-cheating-claims-mount\/"},"modified":"2017-11-04T01:45:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T00:45:52","slug":"taped-limbs-valium-and-cold-showers-paralympic-cheating-claims-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=13656","title":{"rendered":"Taped limbs, Valium and cold showers: Paralympic cheating claims mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Athletes have drugged themselves and rolled in snow says former IPC expert\u2022 IPC insists system is \u2018robust\u2019 as allegations mount of intentional misleadingA former classification expert for the International Paralympic Committee has lifted the lid on a system ripe for cheating and claims to have repeatedly witnessed athletes exaggerating their disability to stand a better chance of winning medals.The expert, who has requested to remain anonymous for fear of losing their job, claims to have seen athletes drugging themselves with Valium, rolling in the snow and taping their limbs before classification assessments. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/nov\/03\/para-swimming-classification-claims-ipc\" target=\"_blank\">Taped limbs, Valium and cold showers: Paralympic cheating claims mount<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Athletes have drugged themselves and rolled in snow says former IPC expert\u2022 IPC insists system is \u2018robust\u2019 as allegations mount of intentional misleadingA former classification expert for the International Paralympic Committee has lifted the lid on a system ripe for cheating and claims to have repeatedly witnessed athletes exaggerating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}