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Sporting Witness Episodes

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    Lucas Radebe

    The Leeds United legend who won the Africa Cup of Nations with South Africa in 1996

  2. The woman who won the Paris-Dakar rally

    In January 2001, Germany's Jutta Kleinschmidt won one of the biggest races in motorsport

  3. Brad Snyder - From the battlefield to Paralympic gold

    The American serviceman who won swimming glory a year after being blinded by a bomb

  4. Cameron Hughes - sports entertainer

    The Canadian who's made a career out of dancing at big sports events around the world

  5. The yachting rescue that gripped the world

    Pete Goss鈥檚 heroic solo rescue during the 1996 Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race

  6. Joey Dunlop - Northern Ireland's motorsport hero

    The motorbike world champion whose high-speed triumphs united a divided country

  7. Stop the Springboks

    How campaigners used direct action to stop South Africa's apartheid teams touring the UK

  8. Learie Constantine - West Indies cricket pioneer

    How the West Indian all-rounder took England by storm in the 1920s and 30s.

  9. Maradona and the "Hand of God" goal

    Ex-England striker Gary Lineker on Maradona's legendary World Cup quarter-final in 1986

  10. Judit Polgar - the chess champion who defied stereotypes

    How the chess prodigy overcame sexism in her sport and defeated the all-time greats.

  11. The 'Blind Maradona'

    The story of Silvio Velo, the captain of Argentina's world-beating blind football team

  12. India's Queen of the Oceans

    How Bula Choudhury was the first woman to swim straits of the world's seven seas.

  13. Natalia Partyka - Youngest paralympian

    The Polish table tennis champion who began her Paralympic career aged just 11.

  14. Viv Anderson - first black England footballer

    In November 1978, the defender became the first black Englishman to play for his country.

  15. Surfing the world's biggest waves

    Garrett McNamara broke the world record for biggest wave ever surfed in 2011 at Nazar茅

  16. Africa's football revolution

    Ex-Premiership star Kolo Toure on how a team in Ivory Coast modernised football in Africa

  17. South Africa's black rowing hero

    How Sizwe Ndlovu became the first black African to win an Olympic rowing gold in 2012.

  18. Cathy Freeman

    The aboriginal runner who became the hero of the Sydney Olympics in 2000

  19. Australia's 'Madam Butterfly'

    Susie O'Neill experienced the joy of victory and the agony of defeat at her home Olympics

  20. Cycling's 'Everesting' challenge

    Why cyclists in lockdown are riding the equivalent of climbing the world's highest peak

  21. Lucy Ejike - Nigeria's powerlifting hero

    The story of Nigeria's most successful female paralympian.

  22. Tasha Danvers - motherhood and elite performance

    The British hurdler who overcame private emotional struggles to win an Olympic bronze

  23. Chak de India!

    How India's female hockey stars inspired a generation of sportswomen and a Bollywood film

  24. Tears of a weightlifter

    In 2008, Matthias Steiner overcame personal tragedy to win an emotional Olympic gold

  25. The first woman to climb Everest

    Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest

  26. Coe vs Ovett

    British runner Sebastian Coe remembers his rivalry with Steve Ovett at the 1980 Olympics

  27. Afghanistan's cricket heroes

    How Afghan cricketers lifted the nation's spirits by reaching their first big tournament

  28. Beckham in Hollywood

    The glitz and glamour of David Beckham's signing for Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007

  29. Andre Agassi

    The private emotional struggles of the 1992 Wimbledon tennis champion

  30. Greece's stunning football triumph

    How rank outsiders Greece won the 2004 European Football Championship.

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