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Sporting Witness Episodes

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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

  2. The Palestinian women's football team

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

  3. Zimbabwe's Paralympic pioneer

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

  4. The Gay Games

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

  5. 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

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

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

  7. The NFL's Rooney Rule

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

  8. Mianne Bagger - Golf's transgender pioneer

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

  9. Lucas Radebe

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

  10. The woman who won the Paris-Dakar rally

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

  11. Brad Snyder - From the battlefield to Paralympic gold

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

  12. Cameron Hughes - sports entertainer

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

  13. The yachting rescue that gripped the world

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

  14. Joey Dunlop - Northern Ireland's motorsport hero

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

  15. Stop the Springboks

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

  16. Learie Constantine - West Indies cricket pioneer

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

  17. Maradona and the "Hand of God" goal

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

  18. Judit Polgar - the chess champion who defied stereotypes

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

  19. The 'Blind Maradona'

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

  20. India's Queen of the Oceans

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

  21. Natalia Partyka - Youngest paralympian

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

  22. Viv Anderson - first black England footballer

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

  23. Surfing the world's biggest waves

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

  24. Africa's football revolution

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

  25. South Africa's black rowing hero

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

  26. Cathy Freeman

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

  27. Australia's 'Madam Butterfly'

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

  28. Cycling's 'Everesting' challenge

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

  29. Lucy Ejike - Nigeria's powerlifting hero

    The story of Nigeria's most successful female paralympian.

  30. Tasha Danvers - motherhood and elite performance

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

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