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Sporting Witness Episodes

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    Ruud Krol: The World Cup meets Total Football

    How the Netherlands' style and flair stole the show at the 1974 World Cup

  2. Zaire's infamous World Cup free-kick moment

    How Zaire's reaction to Brazil's free-kick in the 1974 World Cup became folklore.

  3. Kuwait at the 1982 World Cup

    The Gulf state's first and only World Cup appearance, with a camel as team mascot

  4. When Diana Ross missed a penalty at the World Cup

    Diana Ross' iconic penalty miss at the 1994 World Cup

  5. The Golden Girls of Zimbabwe

    How the women's hockey team won an unexpected first Olympic gold in 1980

  6. Tonton Zola Moukoko: The best Championship Manager player ever

    The cult hero whose real life didn't match his computer stardom

  7. The day we beat the All Blacks

    Gareth Jenkins relives Llanelli Rugby Club鈥檚 iconic 1972 victory over the All Blacks.

  8. How baseball helped bridge the US-Cuba divide

    How the Baltimore Orioles became the first Major League team to play in communist Cuba

  9. China's first golf champion

    Shanshan Feng was the first Chinese golfer ever to win a major championship back in 2012.

  10. The bizarre twist in South Africa鈥檚 ultramarathon

    Runner Nick Bester notices something suspicious at South Africa鈥檚 Comrades ultramarathon.

  11. How I helped bring down Lance Armstrong

    One journalist's 12 year pursuit of drug cheat Lance Armstrong

  12. Derartu Tulu: Africa's first black female Olympic champion

    Derartu Tulu became the first black African woman to win gold in Barcelona in 1992

  13. Rose Reilly

    Banned from playing football in her native Scotland, Rose Reilly represented Italy.

  14. Kosovo鈥檚 first Olympic medal

    Majlinda Kelmendi won the first medal for Kosovo since the country gained independence.

  15. Ben Johnson

    Ben Johnson was disqualified 48 hours after winning the Olympic 100 metre final in 1988

  16. Coaching the world's best tennis players

    Tennis coach Rick Macci on training future world number ones Serena and Venus Williams

  17. The most controversial three seconds in basketball history

    The USSR faced the USA in the 1972 Olympic men's basketball final

  18. Sydney Olympics鈥� vault fault

    At the Olympics in 2000, a fault with gymnastics equipment changed the course of a final

  19. Nick Skelton's bid for gold

    British showjumper Nick Skelton's 33 year quest for an Olympic medal.

  20. The first Women's Euros

    Between 1982 and 1984, UEFA held the first European Competition for Women's Football

  21. Yohann Gene - The Tour de France's first black cyclist

    Yohann Gene from Guadeloupe made history by being the first black man to race in the Tour

  22. Britain's Golden Relay

    Britain's 4x100m relay team cause one of the greatest upsets in Olympic history in Athens

  23. Nadine Angerer: Germany鈥檚 penalty-saving heroine

    How Nadine Angerer became Germany's penalty saving heroine

  24. Jens Voigt: Riding the Tour De France on a child's bike

    The unusual solution that kept a cyclist in one of the world's greatest races

  25. The longest tennis match of all time

    John Isner and Nicolas Mahut battle it out at Wimbledon in the longest match of all time.

  26. Baseball's bionic man

    The revolutionary surgery that saved baseball pitcher Tommy John's elbow and career.

  27. Diving into the world's largest iceberg

    Canadian diver Jill Heinerth was the first woman to enter the caves of a giant iceberg

  28. Protesting against the US National Anthem

    NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refused to stand for the American flag in protest in 1996

  29. The Miracle of Istanbul

    Liverpool's incredible comeback to win the Champions League final in 2005

  30. Ryneldi Becenti - Native American basketball hero

    How the first Native American to play in the NBA inspired her community in the 1990s

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