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Sporting Witness Episodes

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    Hou Bin wows the world

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

  2. Kenya's Paralympic Record-Breaker

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

  3. The Golden Couple of the first Tokyo Olympics

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

  4. Zamzam Farah - Somalia's inspiring runner

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

  5. The first Tokyo Olympics

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

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

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

  7. Bjorn Borg

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

  8. France鈥檚 Euro 2000 triumph

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

  9. The Panenka penalty

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

  10. Football's Coming 蜜芽传媒

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

  11. The Van Basten wonder goal

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

  12. Denmark's shock Euros win

    How the Danes won the Euro 92 championship despite not even qualifying for the tournament

  13. Enith Brigitha - First black swimmer to win an Olympic medal

    In 1976, the Dutch swimmer blazed the trail for future black athletes in swimming

  14. Maria Mutola - Mozambique's athletics queen

    How the legendary 800-metre runner finally won an Olympic gold medal in 2000

  15. Arsenal's last-minute championship win

    In 1989 Arsenal won the English football league with an extra-time goal against Liverpool

  16. Indonesia's badminton heroine

    How Susi Susanti won the first Olympic gold medal for her badminton-obsessed country

  17. Anthony Robles

    The one-legged wrestler who won a national college title in the United States in 2011

  18. The Scottish club that toppled Real Madrid

    Led by Alex Ferguson, Aberdeen beat the Spanish giants to win a European trophy in 1983

  19. The athlete who changed the rules on sex tests

    How a Spanish woman hurdler won the right to compete despite having male chromosomes

  20. Kuwait at the football World Cup

    The Gulf state's first and only World Cup appearance, with a camel as team mascot

  21. Ghana's runaway sprinters

    How two Ghanaian athletes escaped during the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand in 1990

  22. Fighting for women's boxing

    The story of Gail Grandchamp, who campaigned for the right of women to box in the USA.

  23. 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

  24. The Palestinian women's football team

    How Honey Thaljieh started a soccer team for women in the occupied West Bank

  25. Zimbabwe's Paralympic pioneer

    How Elliot Mujaji won the first ever Paralympic gold medal for his country in 2000.

  26. The Gay Games

    The first international sports event for LGBT athletes was held in San Francisco in 1982.

  27. 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

  28. Nova Peris - Australia's first aboriginal Olympic champion

    How the hockey-player from Darwin broke barriers by winning an Olympic gold medal in 1996

  29. The NFL's Rooney Rule

    The activist and champion who pushed for American football's landmark diversity policy

  30. Mianne Bagger - Golf's transgender pioneer

    In 2004, Mianne Bagger became the first transitioned woman to play professional golf

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