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Sporting Witness Episodes

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    Yale women rowers protest

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

  2. Nigeria's Paralympic heroine

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

  3. Bangladesh's football heroes

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

  4. The Tibetan football team

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

  5. The football wages revolution

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

  6. Zenyatta

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

  7. The woman who rowed the Atlantic

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

  8. Lebanon's match-fixing scandal

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

  9. Zola Budd

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

  10. The Dumptruck: King of sumo

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

  11. Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Heptathlon Queen

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

  12. Born to Run: Mexico's Tarahumara Indians

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

  13. Japan's Keirin cycling phenomenon

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

  14. Cameroon's Triple Jump Queen

    How motherhood inspired Francoise Mbango to two Olympic gold medals.

  15. Golf's 'war by the shore'

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

  16. The Queen of Women's Beach Volleyball

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

  17. The struggle for women's football in Afghanistan

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

  18. India's first Paralympic champion

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

  19. Brazil's blind sprinting legend

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

  20. Hou Bin wows the world

    The Chinese athlete who lit the Paralympic flame after a stunning feat of strength.

  21. Kenya's Paralympic Record-Breaker

    How blind runner, Henry Wanyoike, set world records and won Paralympic golds.

  22. The Golden Couple of the first Tokyo Olympics

    British runners Ann Packer and Robbie Brightwell were stars of the 1964 Olympics

  23. Zamzam Farah - Somalia's inspiring runner

    The Somali 400-metre runner who was forced to seek asylum after the London 2012 Olympics

  24. The first Tokyo Olympics

    How a new modern Japan emerged on the world stage at the 1964 Olympic Games

  25. Stacy Dragila - Queen of the Women's Pole Vault

    The American vaulter who won the first ever Olympic women's competition at Sydney 2000

  26. Bjorn Borg

    The Swedish tennis superstar who won Wimbledon five times in a row

  27. France鈥檚 Euro 2000 triumph

    Robert Pires on how the French became European champions in dramatic style

  28. The Panenka penalty

    How the Czechoslovak midfielder created a daring new style of penalty at Euro 76

  29. Football's Coming 蜜芽传媒

    How England sparked a mood of national euphoria at Euro 96 before it ended in tears

  30. The Van Basten wonder goal

    How an amazing volley gave Holland their first victory at a big international tournament

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