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Sporting Witness Episodes

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

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

  2. The Blind Cricket World Cup

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

  3. Magic Johnson and HIV

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

  4. The death of Robert Enke

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

  5. New York Marathon women's protest

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

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

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

  7. The policeman who won the Rugby World Cup

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

  8. Muhammad Ali: The 'Last Hurrah'

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

  9. India's long jump queen

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

  10. Western Samoa stun Wales

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

  11. The world's longest horse race

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

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

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

  13. 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

  14. The Queen of Mont Blanc

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

  15. Ryneldi Becenti - Native American basketball star

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

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

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

  17. Football glory unites Iraq

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

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

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

  19. The closest Tour de France ever

    How American Greg Lemond won cycling's biggest race by just 8 seconds in 1989.

  20. The football war

    The World Cup qualifiers that preceded a brief but bloody conflict in Central America

  21. Little Mo, tennis great

    Maureen Connolly was the first woman to win a tennis Grand Slam in 1953

  22. USA wins the first Women's World Cup

    Carin Jennings-Gabarra recalls her part in America's 1991 World Cup win

  23. Germany's 'Golden Goal' heroine

    In 2003, Nia K眉nzer's extra-time header won Germany its first women's football World Cup

  24. Tony Hawk, skateboard king

    How mastering a virtually impossible trick made the US skateboarder a household name.

  25. Japan's women footballers lift the nation

    In 2011, winning the soccer World Cup lifted Japan's morale after the Fukushima disaster.

  26. Kenya's World Cup cricket fairytale

    In 2003, Kenya stunned cricket by reaching the World Cup semi-final.

  27. Liverpool - The kings of Europe

    How Liverpool won their first European Cup in 1977, starting a decade of domination.

  28. Spurs dream of European glory

    How Tottenham Hotspur took on Anderlecht in a battle for the 1984 UEFA Cup

  29. Secretariat - America's superstar racehorse

    How one of the greatest racehorses of all time won the US Triple Crown in 1973.

  30. The Torino air disaster

    In May 1949, a plane crash killed one of the greatest teams in Italian football history.

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