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Sporting Witness Episodes

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    The first Women's Euros

    Between 1982 and 1984, UEFA held the first European Competition for Women's Football

  2. Yohann Gene - The Tour de France's first black cyclist

    Yohann Gene from Guadeloupe made history by being the first black man to race in the Tour

  3. Britain's Golden Relay

    Britain's 4x100m relay team cause one of the greatest upsets in Olympic history in Athens

  4. Nadine Angerer: Germany鈥檚 penalty-saving heroine

    How Nadine Angerer became Germany's penalty saving heroine

  5. Jens Voigt: Riding the Tour De France on a child's bike

    The unusual solution that kept a cyclist in one of the world's greatest races

  6. The longest tennis match of all time

    John Isner and Nicolas Mahut battle it out at Wimbledon in the longest match of all time.

  7. Baseball's bionic man

    The revolutionary surgery that saved baseball pitcher Tommy John's elbow and career.

  8. Diving into the world's largest iceberg

    Canadian diver Jill Heinerth was the first woman to enter the caves of a giant iceberg

  9. Protesting against the US National Anthem

    NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refused to stand for the American flag in protest in 1996

  10. The Miracle of Istanbul

    Liverpool's incredible comeback to win the Champions League final in 2005

  11. Ryneldi Becenti - Native American basketball hero

    How the first Native American to play in the NBA inspired her community in the 1990s

  12. The footballer trapped in Syria

    How Nigerian Olaniyi Gideon was caught up in the Civil War in Syria while at a local club

  13. Man City win their first Premier League

    Defender Micah Richards on the most exciting finish ever to the English football season.

  14. Janet Guthrie: The first woman at the Indianapolis 500

    How the pioneering racing driver broke the gender barrier at America's top motor race

  15. Jahangir Khan: The king of squash

    The legendary Pakistani player who went undefeated for five years in the 1980s

  16. Cricket in North Korea

    In 2008, a group of western cricketers took their sport to the Axis of Evil.

  17. The Mozart of Table Tennis

    Swedish ping pong player Jan-Ove Waldner is a legend in his own country - and in China.

  18. Tanya Streeter

    In 2002, free diver Tanya Streeter attempted to reach a record depth of 160m.

  19. The women cross-country skiers who fought to race

    How women won the right to compete in the hugely popular Vasaloppet event in Sweden

  20. Saving Fabrice Muamba

    The cardiologist who saved the Bolton footballer after he had a heart attack on the pitch

  21. Kelly Gallagher

    How the visually-impaired skier from Northern Ireland won Team GB's first Paralympic gold

  22. The first Winter Paralympic Games

    Two athletes from Finland and Britain remember the inaugural Winter Paralympics in 1976.

  23. The Queen of Paralympic Snowboarding

    Bibian Mentel-Spee campaigned for her event to be in the games, then won the first Gold.

  24. Dan Jansen - from tragedy to triumph

    The American speed-skater who overcame grief to win Olympic gold.

  25. Morten Andersen: The NFL Hall of Fame kicker

    How a Danish kid became a record-breaking kicker in American football

  26. Vonetta Flowers: The first black Winter Olympic champion

    How the American bobsledder made history at the 2002 games in Utah

  27. India's Luge pioneer

    Shiva Keshavan took part in one of the most dangerous Winter Olympic sports aged just 16.

  28. Novak Djokovic: The road to success

    Nikola Pilic, one of the Serbian player's mentors, remembers training him as a teenager.

  29. The Port Said stadium riot

    How 74 people were killed in one of the worst disasters in football history in 2012.

  30. Skiing in Afghanistan

    How an international skiing scene developed in the mountains of Bamiyan province in 2011

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