Sporting Witness Episodes Episode guide
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Sir Stirling Moss
In 1955, Sir Stirling Moss faced his biggest motor racing challenge - the Mille Miglia.
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Nancy Kerrigan Attacked
How an attack on the ice skater Nancy Kerrigan, shocked the USA in 1994.
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Hassiba Boulmerka Defies Death Threats
How the Algerian runner's success made her a political opponent for extremists
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American Football's "Greatest Game"
How the "Greatest Game" in American Football turned the sport into a modern phenomenon.
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London's Austerity Olympics
How the 1948 Olympics helped London emerge from its post-war gloom.
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Zambian football crash
How Zambia overcame tragedy to reach the final of the Africa Cup of Nations in 1994.
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Gold for Burundi!
How Venuste Niyongabo won Burundi's only Olympic gold in 1996.
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FA Cup Giantkillers
How tiny Hereford United won one of the greatest FA cup ties of all time in 1972.
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The "Cotswold Olimpicks" of 1612
How British Olympic history started 400 years ago with the games held in the Cotswolds.
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Kip Keino
How the Kenyan running legend Kip Keino, won Olympic gold in 1968.
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Ron Clarke's Heart Stops at the Mexico Olympics
Altitude sickness caused 10,000m race favourite to collapse at the finishing line in 1968
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Lady Swimmers of the 1920s
How three British women swimmers took the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics by storm
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Summit Series Ice Hockey - Canada vs USSR 1972
How Canada beat the Soviet Union to win one of the biggest ice hockey games of all time.
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Princess Anne at the 1976 Olympics
The Princess talks about being part of the British eventing team at the Montreal Olympics
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Precious McKenzie - South African Weight-lifter
How he escaped apartheid South Africa and achieved international success
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Ping Pong Diplomacy
How table tennis helped bridge the divide between the US and Maoist China in 1971.
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Duncan Goodhew and the Moscow Olympic boycott
How the 1980 Moscow Olympics created a moral dilemma for British swimmer, Duncan Goodhew.
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Rumble in the Jungle
In October 1974 one of the greatest boxing matches of all time took place in Zaire
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Rugby World Cup Unites South Africa
How the 1995 Rugby World Cup helped unite the new South Africa.
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Boston Red Sox win World Series at last
How the Boston Red Sox finally won the baseball World Series in 2004.
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Frankie Fredericks
The story of Africa's greatest Olympic sprinter.
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The First Paralympic Games
The first Paralympics were held in Rome in 1960.
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America's Cup Goes To Australia
How the Australian yachting team won the America's Cup in 1983.
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Shootings at the Munich Olympics
Israeli athletes remember the shootings at the Munich Olympics of 1972.
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Jim Thorpe: Native American legend
The incredible story of the star of the 1912 Olympics
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The Fosbury flop
How American athlete Dick Fosbury revolutionised the high jump
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Sir Clyde Walcott on the West Indies' First Win at Lord's
A win for the West Indies in 1950 at Lord's made the team a force in international cricket
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Blood in the Water - the 1956 Olympics
How an Olympic water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union turned into a battle
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Alex Ferguson - the early years in management
How Sir Alex Ferguson made his reputation as a manager at Aberdeen in the 1980s
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Eric Liddell - from Chariots of Fire to World War II
The extraordinary life of Eric Liddell, the runner featued in the film Chariots of Fire