def get_las_cursor_parameters(sport_name):
    """Returns list with position 0 as the SQL query to find the gold medal counts of all athletes who have participated in a specified sport, sorted by number of gold medals, and position 1 as the search string describing the specified sport."""
    search_string = sport_name
    query = '''SELECT
      athletes.full_name,
      COUNT(*) AS gold_medals
    FROM
      sports,
      athletes,
      linking_table,
      medals
    WHERE
      linking_table.sport_id = sports.id AND
      sports.sport = %s AND
      linking_table.medal_id = medals.id AND
      medals.medal = 'Gold' AND
      linking_table.athlete_id = athletes.id
    GROUP BY
      athletes.full_name
    ORDER BY
      gold_medals DESC'''
    return [query, search_string]