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The boxing referee who started a riot
A New Zealand referee quit after starting a riot during the Summer Olympics of 1988
The first Basketball World Cup
In 1950, Argentina hosted, and won, the inaugural Basketball World Cup
Muay Thai: World champion Sylvie Von Duuglas-Ittu
American Sylvie Von Duuglas-Ittu became one of the most successful Muay Thai fighters
The Vatican's mini-World Cup
In 2007, trainee priests competed to win the first football Clericus Cup
First women's cyclo-cross world championship
Female cyclo-cross riders take part at the world championship in 2000 for the first time
Calciopoli: The Juventus scandal
In 2006, a match-fixing scandal rocked Italian football
Tiger Woods wins his first major
At the age of 21, Tiger Woods won the US Masters in 1997 by dominating the golf course
First woman to win Olympic gold in windsurfing
Barbara Kendall overcame injury to win gold in windsurfing at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics
Kenya's first Winter Olympian
How cross-country skiing united a Kenyan farmer and a Norwegian Winter Olympic hero.
The Maccabiah Games
The first Maccabiah Games, a multi-sport event for Jewish athletes, were held in 1932