Sporting Witness Episodes Episode guide
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Cheerleading's first World Championships
The first Cheerleading Worlds were held in 2004 at Walt Disney World in Florida.
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Clyde Best: A black footballing pioneer
The Bermuda-born West Ham striker recalls the rampant racism in 1970s English football
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Rulon Gardner - Wrestling Hero
How the son of American farmers defeated a Russian champion considered unbeatable.
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Ibtihaj Muhammad - Fencing in a hijab
The inspiring story of the first Muslim-American to wear a hijab at the Olympics.
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Tofiri Kibuuka - Africa's paralympic pioneer
The blind athlete who competed in both the winter and summer Paralympic games.
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The Matthews Final
How legendary English footballer Stanley Matthews won the FA Cup for his team in 1953.
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Fausto Coppi - Il Campionissimo
The great Italian cyclist whose private life scandalized Italy in the 1950s.
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The 'Crazy Gang' win the FA Cup
How Wimbledon won a shock victory over the mighty Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup Final
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Defying the Taliban
How Pakistan's Maria Toorpakai Wazir battled death threats to become a squash player.
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Mary Peters
How the Northern Irish pentathlete became a hero for winning gold at the 1972 Olympics.
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Parkour
How French teenagers invented a sport by running, jumping and vaulting around their town.
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Why I designed the prosthetic running leg
The inventor of the Cheetah Foot on the accident that led him to revolutionise para-sport
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The perfect bull-ride
In 1991, Wade Leslie became the first and only cowboy to achieve the maximum rodeo score.
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Ironman's Ironwoman
Julie Moss put Ironman on the map by crawling to the finish of the World Championship.
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Death at the Cricket World Cup
How the death of top coach Bob Woolmer threw cricket into turmoil in 2007.
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The remarkable life of Eva Szekely
The remarkable life of Hungarian Olympic swimmer and Holocaust survivor, Eva Szekely
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Colin McRae: Rally legend
How the Scottish driver became the youngest ever rally World Champion in 1995
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India's luge pioneer
How Shiva Keshavan took part in one of the most dangerous Winter Olympic sports at 16.
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Kenya's first Winter Olympian
In 1998, a farmer called Philip Boit competed in the gruelling cross-country ski event.
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Nancy Greene: The 'Tiger' of women's skiing
How the Canadian became a national hero after winning Olympic gold in 1968
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Knocking down Mike Tyson
In 1990, outsider James "Buster" Douglas defeated one of boxing's greatest champions.
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Rocky Bleier: The legendary comeback
How a wounded Vietnam war veteran became an NFL Super Bowl champion.
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Stanley Matthews' Soweto team
How an English soccer legend ran a team of black players in apartheid-era South Africa
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P.T. Usha - India's 'queen of track and field'
How the fastest woman in India came agonisingly close to Olympic glory in 1984
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Togo bus attack
In 2010, Angolan rebels opened fire on the team buses of the Togolese football team.
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Wrexham's FA Cup giant-killing
In January 1992, the small Welsh club beat reigning English champions Arsenal.
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The 蜜芽传媒's first female football reporter
In 1969, Mary Raine became the first woman to report on football for the 蜜芽传媒.
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The shot heard around the world
How a wonder goal took the US to the football World Cup for the first time in decades
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Arunima Sinha - Indian Mountain Climber
The incredible story of the first woman amputee to climb Mount Everest
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The Cold War's strangest sport
How international Morse code competitions became popular behind the Iron Curtain.
