Shambles ....your links are somewhat out of date and bear little relationship to what is actually happening.

No one at the games has been disqualified for drug taking and having watched an athlete with no legs win a sprint event and a swimmer with no arms win a freestyle event, I find it hard give any credence to your assertion about athletes pretending to be more disabled than they really are in order to get an easier catagorisation.

From my link (dated 16 September 2004)

PARALYMPICS boss Phil Craven today warned of a zero-tolerance policy towards drugs cheats after he was confronted with the first doping scandal of the Athens Games before the event has even started.

The missed drugs test controversy surrounding Greek sprint icons Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou was just one of a number of doping scandals to rock the Olympics last month.

It is a problem many would not have expected to feature on the agenda at the Paralympics.

But on the eve of the Opening Ceremony Craven, the International Paralympic Committee president, was forced to put forth his views on the darker side of sport following the revelation of a positive drugs test from a Canadian athlete and Sydney silver medallist.

Earle Connor, one of the world's top Paralympic athletes, won't be competing at the Games in Athens after he tested positive for trace amounts of testosterone and nandrolone in an out-of-competition test on August 23.

Craven, whose welcome press conference was hi-jacked by a Canadian journalist, was embarrassingly forced to admit he didn't know about the case and refused to speculate on what effect the fact that such a high-calibre Paralympian was involved in doping would have on the Games.

"I can assure you I was not aware of that case but as I have said before the IPC has a zero tolerance policy towards doping," said Craven. "It doesn't matter which athlete it is, that is cheating and has got to not happen."

The 28-year-old Connor, who won a 200m silver medal in 2000, was one of Canada's top medal hopes in Athens and was to be one of three finalists to carry the Canadian flag in tomorrow's opening ceremony.