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Sporting Witness Episodes

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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

  2. Man City win their first Premier League

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

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

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

  4. Jahangir Khan: The king of squash

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

  5. Cricket in North Korea

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

  6. The Mozart of Table Tennis

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

  7. Tanya Streeter

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

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

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

  9. Saving Fabrice Muamba

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

  10. Kelly Gallagher

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

  11. The first Winter Paralympic Games

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

  12. The Queen of Paralympic Snowboarding

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

  13. Dan Jansen - from tragedy to triumph

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

  14. Morten Andersen: The NFL Hall of Fame kicker

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

  15. Vonetta Flowers: The first black Winter Olympic champion

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

  16. India's Luge pioneer

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

  17. Novak Djokovic: The road to success

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

  18. The Port Said stadium riot

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

  19. Skiing in Afghanistan

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

  20. Yale women rowers protest

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

  21. Nigeria's Paralympic heroine

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

  22. Bangladesh's football heroes

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

  23. The Tibetan football team

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

  24. The football wages revolution

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

  25. Zenyatta

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

  26. The woman who rowed the Atlantic

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

  27. Lebanon's match-fixing scandal

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

  28. Zola Budd

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

  29. The Dumptruck: King of sumo

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

  30. Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Heptathlon Queen

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

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