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Sporting Witness Episodes

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    Kenya's first Winter Olympian

    In 1998, a farmer called Philip Boit competed in the gruelling cross-country ski event.

  2. Nancy Greene: The 'Tiger' of women's skiing

    How the Canadian became a national hero after winning Olympic gold in 1968

  3. Knocking down Mike Tyson

    In 1990, outsider James "Buster" Douglas defeated one of boxing's greatest champions.

  4. Rocky Bleier: The legendary comeback

    How a wounded Vietnam war veteran became an NFL Super Bowl champion.

  5. Stanley Matthews' Soweto team

    How an English soccer legend ran a team of black players in apartheid-era South Africa

  6. P.T. Usha - India's 'queen of track and field'

    How the fastest woman in India came agonisingly close to Olympic glory in 1984

  7. Togo bus attack

    In 2010, Angolan rebels opened fire on the team buses of the Togolese football team.

  8. Wrexham's FA Cup giant-killing

    In January 1992, the small Welsh club beat reigning English champions Arsenal.

  9. The 麻豆社's first female football reporter

    In 1969, Mary Raine became the first woman to report on football for the 麻豆社.

  10. The shot heard around the world

    How a wonder goal took the US to the football World Cup for the first time in decades

  11. Arunima Sinha - Indian Mountain Climber

    The incredible story of the first woman amputee to climb Mount Everest

  12. The Cold War's strangest sport

    How international Morse code competitions became popular behind the Iron Curtain.

  13. Nigeria's 'Superfalcons' wow the Women's World Cup

    How the Nigerian team put women's football on the map in Africa in 1999

  14. The Blind Cricket World Cup

    In 1998, India hosted the first international tournament for blind cricketers.

  15. Magic Johnson and HIV

    In November 1991 the basketball legend stunned America by announcing he was HIV positive.

  16. The death of Robert Enke

    The German goalkeeper who killed himself in November 2009, shocking the football world.

  17. New York Marathon women's protest

    How six women runners staged a sit-down to demand equality for female athletes in 1972.

  18. Chester Williams - South Africa's black rugby hero

    The story of the only black player in the Springboks' World Cup winning team in 1995.

  19. The policeman who won the Rugby World Cup

    How a London-born policeman ended up featuring in an all-conquering New Zealand team.

  20. Muhammad Ali: The 'Last Hurrah'

    In 1980 the boxing legend came out of retirement for a last shot at a world title aged 38

  21. India's long jump queen

    How Anju Bobby George won India's first ever World Athletics Championship medal in 2003.

  22. Western Samoa stun Wales

    In 1991, the team from the South Pacific shocked Wales in the Rugby World Cup.

  23. The world's longest horse race

    In 2009 the first ever Mongol Derby was raced across the Mongolian Steppe.

  24. Eamonn Coghlan and the four-minute mile at forty

    How the Irish runner came out of retirement to achieve a milestone for older runners.

  25. The pole-vaulter who insulted the Soviet Union

    In 1980, Poland's W艂adys艂aw Kozakiewicz won Olympic gold, then insulted the Moscow crowd

  26. The Queen of Mont Blanc

    How Britain's Lizzy Hawker won the top race in mountain-running a record five times.

  27. Ryneldi Becenti - Native American basketball star

    The inspiring story of how a player from a Navajo reservation made it to the women's NBA.

  28. David Steele: 'The bank clerk who went to war'

    In 1975, the veteran cricketer became an unlikely English hero in the Ashes series

  29. Football glory unites Iraq

    In 2007, Iraq won the Asian Cup sparking wild celebrations across the war-torn country.

  30. Shane Warne and the 'Ball of the Century'

    In 1993, the Aussie spinner made his Ashes debut with the delivery that made his name

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