Sporting Witness Episodes Episode guide
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The footballer trapped in Syria
How Nigerian Olaniyi Gideon was caught up in the Civil War in Syria while at a local club
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Man City win their first Premier League
Defender Micah Richards on the most exciting finish ever to the English football season.
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Janet Guthrie: The first woman at the Indianapolis 500
How the pioneering racing driver broke the gender barrier at America's top motor race
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Jahangir Khan: The king of squash
The legendary Pakistani player who went undefeated for five years in the 1980s
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Cricket in North Korea
In 2008, a group of western cricketers took their sport to the Axis of Evil.
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The Mozart of Table Tennis
Swedish ping pong player Jan-Ove Waldner is a legend in his own country - and in China.
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Tanya Streeter
In 2002, free diver Tanya Streeter attempted to reach a record depth of 160m.
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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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Saving Fabrice Muamba
The cardiologist who saved the Bolton footballer after he had a heart attack on the pitch
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Kelly Gallagher
How the visually-impaired skier from Northern Ireland won Team GB's first Paralympic gold
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The first Winter Paralympic Games
Two athletes from Finland and Britain remember the inaugural Winter Paralympics in 1976.
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The Queen of Paralympic Snowboarding
Bibian Mentel-Spee campaigned for her event to be in the games, then won the first Gold.
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Dan Jansen - from tragedy to triumph
The American speed-skater who overcame grief to win Olympic gold.
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Morten Andersen: The NFL Hall of Fame kicker
How a Danish kid became a record-breaking kicker in American football
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Vonetta Flowers: The first black Winter Olympic champion
How the American bobsledder made history at the 2002 games in Utah
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India's Luge pioneer
Shiva Keshavan took part in one of the most dangerous Winter Olympic sports aged just 16.
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Novak Djokovic: The road to success
Nikola Pilic, one of the Serbian player's mentors, remembers training him as a teenager.
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The Port Said stadium riot
How 74 people were killed in one of the worst disasters in football history in 2012.
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Skiing in Afghanistan
How an international skiing scene developed in the mountains of Bamiyan province in 2011
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Yale women rowers protest
In 1976, the Yale rowing team stripped naked to demand equal treatment for women's sport.
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Nigeria's Paralympic heroine
The shot-putter with dwarfism whose gold medal celebration went viral on social media.
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Bangladesh's football heroes
How the national football team helped the country's fight for independence in 1971.
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The Tibetan football team
How a group of exiles set up the first Tibetan national team in 2001.
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The football wages revolution
How England's top players fought for their salary cap to be lifted in 1961.
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Zenyatta
The superstar American race-horse who was the first mare to win the Breeders' Cup
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The woman who rowed the Atlantic
Tori Murden McClure built her own boat and became the first woman to row the Atlantic.
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Lebanon's match-fixing scandal
The investigation that rocked Lebanese football and ruined the country's World Cup hopes.
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Zola Budd
The South African-born runner remembers her famous collision with US rival Mary Decker.
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The Dumptruck: King of sumo
How a Hawaiian-born wrestler stormed the traditional world of Japanese sumo in the 1980s
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Heptathlon Queen
In 1988, the American athlete put in one of the greatest performances in Olympic history.