Matt Blitz is a writer based out of Los Angeles who's written for Atlas Obscura, CNN, Untapped Cities, and Today I Found Out. He's currently the head of Obscura Society LA. He does laundry on a regular basis. You can follow him on Twitter @whyblitz.
At the 2000 Paralympic Games, the Spanish intellectually disabled basketball team won gold. There was one problem: 10 of the team’s 12 players had no disability.
In 1990, in one of the World Cup's best underdog stories, Cameroon became the first African nation to advance to the quarterfinals. But their legacy, and history, is much more complicated than that.