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Sporting Witness Episodes

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    Lamine Gueye: Senegalese skiier

    The story of the first black African to compete at the Winter Olympics

  2. Lin Dan: Badminton's all time superstar

    How badminton player Lin Dan won the Super Grand Slam - all 9 major titles in the sport

  3. The Elfstedentocht

    How only 69 of the 10,000 skaters finished in one of the world's toughest ice races

  4. Sven-Goran Eriksson: England's first foreign manager

    In 2000, Swede Sven-Goran Eriksson became manager of England鈥檚 men鈥檚 football team.

  5. Vanderlei de Lima and the sabotaged Olympic marathon

    Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima on how his lead in the 2004 Olympic marathon was destroyed

  6. The man who skied down Everest

    How Japanese alpinist Yuichiro Miura became the first person to ski on Everest in 1970

  7. Caster Semenya

    In 2009, world champion runner Caster Semenya faced questions about her gender

  8. Roger Federer's first Men's Wimbledon win

    How Roger Federer won the Wimbledon Men鈥檚 title for the first time in 2003

  9. The birth of the Fifa computer game

    Jan Tian says his devotion to coding the first EA Sports Fifa game nearly broke him

  10. When West Brom went to China

    In 1978, West Bromwich Albion became British ambassadors in China.

  11. The lost tapes of a Manchester United hero

    The lost memoir of former Manchester United keeper, Les Sealey

  12. The creation of chessboxing

    How Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh combined two of his passions 鈥� chess and boxing

  13. Lindsey Jacobellis: Almost

    How snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis lost gold in 2006's Winter Olympics

  14. Egypt鈥檚 Africa Cup of Nations hat-trick

    In 2010, Egypt completed an unprecedented treble in the Africa Cup of Nations.

  15. England win the Rugby World Cup

    Sir Clive Woodward and George Gregan recount England's victory over Australia in 2003

  16. Meeting Mr Pilates

    Joseph Pilates taught his fitness method in a studio in New York to Mary Bowen

  17. 1964: When surfing came to Australia

    How Manly Beach in Australia hosted the first official World Surfing Championships.

  18. The Netherlands beat England at the Home of Cricket

    How the Netherlands embarrased England at Lord's in the 2009 T20 Cricket World Cup

  19. Cara Honeychurch's tenpin strike

    Tenpin bowler Cara Honeychurch on her streak of becoming World and Commonwealth champion.

  20. The first hijabi figure skater

    Zahra Lari made history by becoming the first figure skater to compete in a hijab

  21. Chuck Wepner: The real-life Rocky who floored Ali

    How American boxer Chuck Wepner knocked Muhammad Ali to the canvas in 1975

  22. Rugby's greatest upset

    How Japan shook the world by beating South Africa at the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup

  23. The first cricket helmet

    In 1977, batsman Dennis Amiss was the first cricketer to wear a protective helmet.

  24. Pat Rafter wins The US Open

    How the Australian tennis player surprised the world by winning The US Open in 1997

  25. Cricket's Blackwash test series

    The West Indies beat England 5-0 in a 1984 test series that became known as Blackwash

  26. The first female NBA referee

    In 1997 Violet Palmer stepped out on court to become the first female NBA referee

  27. Nigeria's path to the Women's World Cup

    How the Nigerian women鈥檚 football team were the first African side in the 1991 World Cup.

  28. First women's Tour de France

    Marianne Martin talks about winning the first official women鈥檚 Tour De France in 1984

  29. The first Women's World Cup sticker album

    How Panini made their first football World Cup sticker album for the women's tournament.

  30. Jana Novotna: From choker to champion

    How the Czech player fought back from a tearful defeat to finally win Wimbledon in 1998

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