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Sporting Witness Episodes

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    Saving Fabrice Muamba

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

  2. Kelly Gallagher

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

  3. The first Winter Paralympic Games

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

  4. The Queen of Paralympic Snowboarding

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

  5. Dan Jansen - from tragedy to triumph

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

  6. Morten Andersen: The NFL Hall of Fame kicker

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

  7. Vonetta Flowers: The first black Winter Olympic champion

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

  8. India's Luge pioneer

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

  9. Novak Djokovic: The road to success

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

  10. The Port Said stadium riot

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

  11. Skiing in Afghanistan

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

  12. Yale women rowers protest

    In 1976, the Yale rowing team stripped naked to demand equal treatment for women's sport.

  13. Nigeria's Paralympic heroine

    The shot-putter with dwarfism whose gold medal celebration went viral on social media.

  14. Bangladesh's football heroes

    How the national football team helped the country's fight for independence in 1971.

  15. The Tibetan football team

    How a group of exiles set up the first Tibetan national team in 2001.

  16. The football wages revolution

    How England's top players fought for their salary cap to be lifted in 1961.

  17. Zenyatta

    The superstar American race-horse who was the first mare to win the Breeders' Cup

  18. The woman who rowed the Atlantic

    Tori Murden McClure built her own boat and became the first woman to row the Atlantic.

  19. Lebanon's match-fixing scandal

    The investigation that rocked Lebanese football and ruined the country's World Cup hopes.

  20. Zola Budd

    The South African-born runner remembers her famous collision with US rival Mary Decker.

  21. The Dumptruck: King of sumo

    How a Hawaiian-born wrestler stormed the traditional world of Japanese sumo in the 1980s

  22. Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Heptathlon Queen

    In 1988, the American athlete put in one of the greatest performances in Olympic history.

  23. Born to Run: Mexico's Tarahumara Indians

    The epic race between America's top ultramarathon runner and an ancient Mexican tribe

  24. Japan's Keirin cycling phenomenon

    How the uniquely Japanese track cycling event made its Olympic debut in 2000.

  25. Cameroon's Triple Jump Queen

    How motherhood inspired Francoise Mbango to two Olympic gold medals.

  26. Golf's 'war by the shore'

    The bitter confrontation between the USA and Europe at the 1991 Ryder Cup

  27. The Queen of Women's Beach Volleyball

    How America鈥檚 Misty May-Treanor won an Olympic gold medal three times.

  28. The struggle for women's football in Afghanistan

    Former captain Shamila Kohestani on why football in Afghanistan was more than a game

  29. India's first Paralympic champion

    In 1972, war veteran Murlikant Petkar won India's first Paralympic gold medal.

  30. Brazil's blind sprinting legend

    How Terezinha Guilhermina went from a Brazilian favela to Paralympic glory.

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