Sporting Witness Episodes Episode guide
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The Van Basten wonder goal
How an amazing volley gave Holland their first victory at a big international tournament
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Denmark's shock Euros win
How the Danes won the Euro 92 championship despite not even qualifying for the tournament
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Enith Brigitha - First black swimmer to win an Olympic medal
In 1976, the Dutch swimmer blazed the trail for future black athletes in swimming
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Maria Mutola - Mozambique's athletics queen
How the legendary 800-metre runner finally won an Olympic gold medal in 2000
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Arsenal's last-minute championship win
In 1989 Arsenal won the English football league with an extra-time goal against Liverpool
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Indonesia's badminton heroine
How Susi Susanti won the first Olympic gold medal for her badminton-obsessed country
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Anthony Robles
The one-legged wrestler who won a national college title in the United States in 2011
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The Scottish club that toppled Real Madrid
Led by Alex Ferguson, Aberdeen beat the Spanish giants to win a European trophy in 1983
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The athlete who changed the rules on sex tests
How a Spanish woman hurdler won the right to compete despite having male chromosomes
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Kuwait at the football World Cup
The Gulf state's first and only World Cup appearance, with a camel as team mascot
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Ghana's runaway sprinters
How two Ghanaian athletes escaped during the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand in 1990
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Fighting for women's boxing
The story of Gail Grandchamp, who campaigned for the right of women to box in the USA.
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When Col Gaddafi's son played football in Italy's Serie A
In 2003, A.C. Perugia signed Al-Saadi Gaddafi, the son of the Libyan dictator
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The Palestinian women's football team
How Honey Thaljieh started a soccer team for women in the occupied West Bank
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Zimbabwe's Paralympic pioneer
How Elliot Mujaji won the first ever Paralympic gold medal for his country in 2000.
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The Gay Games
The first international sports event for LGBT athletes was held in San Francisco in 1982.
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The first woman to play in the NHL
Manon Rh茅aume became the first and only woman to play in the National Hockey League
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Nova Peris - Australia's first aboriginal Olympic champion
How the hockey-player from Darwin broke barriers by winning an Olympic gold medal in 1996
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The NFL's Rooney Rule
The activist and champion who pushed for American football's landmark diversity policy
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Mianne Bagger - Golf's transgender pioneer
In 2004, Mianne Bagger became the first transitioned woman to play professional golf
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Lucas Radebe
The Leeds United legend who won the Africa Cup of Nations with South Africa in 1996
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The woman who won the Paris-Dakar rally
In January 2001, Germany's Jutta Kleinschmidt won one of the biggest races in motorsport
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Brad Snyder - From the battlefield to Paralympic gold
The American serviceman who won swimming glory a year after being blinded by a bomb
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Cameron Hughes - sports entertainer
The Canadian who's made a career out of dancing at big sports events around the world
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The yachting rescue that gripped the world
Pete Goss鈥檚 heroic solo rescue during the 1996 Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race
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Joey Dunlop - Northern Ireland's motorsport hero
The motorbike world champion whose high-speed triumphs united a divided country
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Stop the Springboks
How campaigners used direct action to stop South Africa's apartheid teams touring the UK
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Learie Constantine - West Indies cricket pioneer
How the West Indian all-rounder took England by storm in the 1920s and 30s.
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Maradona and the "Hand of God" goal
Ex-England striker Gary Lineker on Maradona's legendary World Cup quarter-final in 1986
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Judit Polgar - the chess champion who defied stereotypes
How the chess prodigy overcame sexism in her sport and defeated the all-time greats.
