
Sporting Witness
Lucas Radebe
The Leeds United legend who won the Africa Cup of Nations with South Africa in 1996
- 9 mins
- 21 Jan 2021
The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history
Lucas Radebe
The Leeds United legend who won the Africa Cup of Nations with South Africa in 1996
The woman who won the Paris-Dakar rally
In January 2001, Germany's Jutta Kleinschmidt won one of the biggest races in motorsport
Brad Snyder - From the battlefield to Paralympic gold
The American serviceman who won swimming glory a year after being blinded by a bomb
Cameron Hughes - sports entertainer
The Canadian who's made a career out of dancing at big sports events around the world
The yachting rescue that gripped the world
Pete Goss’s heroic solo rescue during the 1996 Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race
Joey Dunlop - Northern Ireland's motorsport hero
The motorbike world champion whose high-speed triumphs united a divided country
Stop the Springboks
How campaigners used direct action to stop South Africa's apartheid teams touring the UK
Learie Constantine - West Indies cricket pioneer
How the West Indian all-rounder took England by storm in the 1920s and 30s.
Maradona and the "Hand of God" goal
Ex-England striker Gary Lineker on Maradona's legendary World Cup quarter-final in 1986
Judit Polgar - the chess champion who defied stereotypes
How the chess prodigy overcame sexism in her sport and defeated the all-time greats.
The 'Blind Maradona'
The story of Silvio Velo, the captain of Argentina's world-beating blind football team
India's Queen of the Oceans
How Bula Choudhury was the first woman to swim straits of the world's seven seas.
Natalia Partyka - Youngest paralympian
The Polish table tennis champion who began her Paralympic career aged just 11.
Viv Anderson - first black England footballer
In November 1978, the defender became the first black Englishman to play for his country.
Surfing the world's biggest waves
Garrett McNamara broke the world record for biggest wave ever surfed in 2011 at Nazaré
Africa's football revolution
Ex-Premiership star Kolo Toure on how a team in Ivory Coast modernised football in Africa
South Africa's black rowing hero
How Sizwe Ndlovu became the first black African to win an Olympic rowing gold in 2012.
Cathy Freeman
The aboriginal runner who became the hero of the Sydney Olympics in 2000
Australia's 'Madam Butterfly'
Susie O'Neill experienced the joy of victory and the agony of defeat at her home Olympics
Cycling's 'Everesting' challenge
Why cyclists in lockdown are riding the equivalent of climbing the world's highest peak