Arunima Sinha - Indian Mountain Climber

The incredible story of the first woman amputee to climb Mount Everest

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The shot heard around the world

How a wonder goal took the US to the football World Cup for the first time in decades

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The BBC's first female football reporter

In 1969, Mary Raine became the first woman to report on football for the BBC.

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Wrexham's FA Cup giant-killing

In January 1992, the small Welsh club beat reigning English champions Arsenal.

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Togo bus attack

In 2010, Angolan rebels opened fire on the team buses of the Togolese football team.

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P.T. Usha - India's 'queen of track and field'

How the fastest woman in India came agonisingly close to Olympic glory in 1984

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Stanley Matthews' Soweto team

How an English soccer legend ran a team of black players in apartheid-era South Africa

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Rocky Bleier: The legendary comeback

How a wounded Vietnam war veteran became an NFL Super Bowl champion.

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Knocking down Mike Tyson

In 1990, outsider James "Buster" Douglas defeated one of boxing's greatest champions.

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Nancy Greene: The 'Tiger' of women's skiing

How the Canadian became a national hero after winning Olympic gold in 1968

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Kenya's first Winter Olympian

In 1998, a farmer called Philip Boit competed in the gruelling cross-country ski event.

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India's luge pioneer

How Shiva Keshavan took part in one of the most dangerous Winter Olympic sports at 16.

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Colin McRae: Rally legend

How the Scottish driver became the youngest ever rally World Champion in 1995

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The remarkable life of Eva Szekely

The remarkable life of Hungarian Olympic swimmer and Holocaust survivor, Eva Szekely

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Death at the Cricket World Cup

How the death of top coach Bob Woolmer threw cricket into turmoil in 2007.

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Ironman's Ironwoman

Julie Moss put Ironman on the map by crawling to the finish of the World Championship.

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The perfect bull-ride

In 1991, Wade Leslie became the first and only cowboy to achieve the maximum rodeo score.

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Why I designed the prosthetic running leg

The inventor of the Cheetah Foot on the accident that led him to revolutionise para-sport

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Parkour

How French teenagers invented a sport by running, jumping and vaulting around their town.

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Mary Peters

How the Northern Irish pentathlete became a hero for winning gold at the 1972 Olympics.

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Defying the Taliban

How Pakistan's Maria Toorpakai Wazir battled death threats to become a squash player.

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The 'Crazy Gang' win the FA Cup

How Wimbledon won a shock victory over the mighty Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup Final

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Fausto Coppi - Il Campionissimo

The great Italian cyclist whose private life scandalized Italy in the 1950s.

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The Matthews Final

How legendary English footballer Stanley Matthews won the FA Cup for his team in 1953.

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Tofiri Kibuuka - Africa's paralympic pioneer

The blind athlete who competed in both the winter and summer Paralympic games.

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Ibtihaj Muhammad - Fencing in a hijab

The inspiring story of the first Muslim-American to wear a hijab at the Olympics.

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Rulon Gardner - Wrestling Hero

How the son of American farmers defeated a Russian champion considered unbeatable.

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Clyde Best: A black footballing pioneer

The Bermuda-born West Ham striker recalls the rampant racism in 1970s English football

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Cheerleading's first World Championships

The first Cheerleading Worlds were held in 2004 at Walt Disney World in Florida.

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Greece's stunning football triumph

How rank outsiders Greece won the 2004 European Football Championship.

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Andre Agassi

The private emotional struggles of the 1992 Wimbledon tennis champion

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Beckham in Hollywood

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

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Afghanistan's cricket heroes

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

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Coe vs Ovett

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

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The first woman to climb Everest

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

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Tears of a weightlifter

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

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Chak de India!

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

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Tasha Danvers - motherhood and elite performance

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

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Lucy Ejike - Nigeria's powerlifting hero

The story of Nigeria's most successful female paralympian.

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Cycling's 'Everesting' challenge

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

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Australia's 'Madam Butterfly'

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

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Cathy Freeman

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

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South Africa's black rowing hero

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

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Africa's football revolution

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

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Surfing the world's biggest waves

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

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Viv Anderson - first black England footballer

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

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Natalia Partyka - Youngest paralympian

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

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India's Queen of the Oceans

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

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The 'Blind Maradona'

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

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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.

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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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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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Stop the Springboks

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

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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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The yachting rescue that gripped the world

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

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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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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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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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Lucas Radebe

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

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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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The NFL's Rooney Rule

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

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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 first woman to play in the NHL

Manon Rhéaume became the first and only woman to play in the National Hockey League

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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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