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Sporting Witness Episodes

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    China's first golf champion

    Shanshan Feng was the first Chinese golfer ever to win a major championship back in 2012.

  2. The bizarre twist in South Africa鈥檚 ultramarathon

    Runner Nick Bester notices something suspicious at South Africa鈥檚 Comrades ultramarathon.

  3. How I helped bring down Lance Armstrong

    One journalist's 12 year pursuit of drug cheat Lance Armstrong

  4. Derartu Tulu: Africa's first black female Olympic champion

    Derartu Tulu became the first black African woman to win gold in Barcelona in 1992

  5. Rose Reilly

    Banned from playing football in her native Scotland, Rose Reilly represented Italy.

  6. Kosovo鈥檚 first Olympic medal

    Majlinda Kelmendi won the first medal for Kosovo since the country gained independence.

  7. Ben Johnson

    Ben Johnson was disqualified 48 hours after winning the Olympic 100 metre final in 1988

  8. Coaching the world's best tennis players

    Tennis coach Rick Macci on training future world number ones Serena and Venus Williams

  9. The most controversial three seconds in basketball history

    The USSR faced the USA in the 1972 Olympic men's basketball final

  10. Sydney Olympics鈥� vault fault

    At the Olympics in 2000, a fault with gymnastics equipment changed the course of a final

  11. Nick Skelton's bid for gold

    British showjumper Nick Skelton's 33 year quest for an Olympic medal.

  12. The first Women's Euros

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

  13. 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

  14. Britain's Golden Relay

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

  15. Nadine Angerer: Germany鈥檚 penalty-saving heroine

    How Nadine Angerer became Germany's penalty saving heroine

  16. 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

  17. The longest tennis match of all time

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

  18. Baseball's bionic man

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

  19. Diving into the world's largest iceberg

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

  20. Protesting against the US National Anthem

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

  21. The Miracle of Istanbul

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

  22. Ryneldi Becenti - Native American basketball hero

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

  23. The footballer trapped in Syria

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

  24. Man City win their first Premier League

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

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

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

  26. Jahangir Khan: The king of squash

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

  27. Cricket in North Korea

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

  28. The Mozart of Table Tennis

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

  29. Tanya Streeter

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

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

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

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