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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Zimbabwe's Paralympic pioneer

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

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The Palestinian women's football team

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

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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

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Fighting for women's boxing

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

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Ghana's runaway sprinters

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

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Kuwait at the football World Cup

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

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The athlete who changed the rules on sex tests

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

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The Scottish club that toppled Real Madrid

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

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Anthony Robles

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

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Indonesia's badminton heroine

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

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Arsenal's last-minute championship win

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

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Maria Mutola - Mozambique's athletics queen

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

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Enith Brigitha - First black swimmer to win an Olympic medal

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

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Denmark's shock Euros win

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

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The Van Basten wonder goal

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

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Football's Coming Home

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

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The Panenka penalty

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

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France’s Euro 2000 triumph

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

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Bjorn Borg

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

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Stacy Dragila - Queen of the Women's Pole Vault

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

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The first Tokyo Olympics

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

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Zamzam Farah - Somalia's inspiring runner

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

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The Golden Couple of the first Tokyo Olympics

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

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Kenya's Paralympic Record-Breaker

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

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Hou Bin wows the world

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

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Brazil's blind sprinting legend

How Terezinha Guilhermina went from a Brazilian favela to Paralympic glory.

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India's first Paralympic champion

In 1972, war veteran Murlikant Petkar won India's first Paralympic gold medal.

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The struggle for women's football in Afghanistan

Former captain Shamila Kohestani on why football in Afghanistan was more than a game

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The Queen of Women's Beach Volleyball

How America’s Misty May-Treanor won an Olympic gold medal three times.

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Golf's 'war by the shore'

The bitter confrontation between the USA and Europe at the 1991 Ryder Cup

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Cameroon's Triple Jump Queen

How motherhood inspired Francoise Mbango to two Olympic gold medals.

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Japan's Keirin cycling phenomenon

How the uniquely Japanese track cycling event made its Olympic debut in 2000.

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Born to Run: Mexico's Tarahumara Indians

The epic race between America's top ultramarathon runner and an ancient Mexican tribe

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Heptathlon Queen

In 1988, the American athlete put in one of the greatest performances in Olympic history.

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The Dumptruck: King of sumo

How a Hawaiian-born wrestler stormed the traditional world of Japanese sumo in the 1980s

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Zola Budd

The South African-born runner remembers her famous collision with US rival Mary Decker.

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Lebanon's match-fixing scandal

The investigation that rocked Lebanese football and ruined the country's World Cup hopes.

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The woman who rowed the Atlantic

Tori Murden McClure built her own boat and became the first woman to row the Atlantic.

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Zenyatta

The superstar American race-horse who was the first mare to win the Breeders' Cup

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The football wages revolution

How England's top players fought for their salary cap to be lifted in 1961.

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The Tibetan football team

How a group of exiles set up the first Tibetan national team in 2001.

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Bangladesh's football heroes

How the national football team helped the country's fight for independence in 1971.

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Nigeria's Paralympic heroine

The shot-putter with dwarfism whose gold medal celebration went viral on social media.

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Yale women rowers protest

In 1976, the Yale rowing team stripped naked to demand equal treatment for women's sport.

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Skiing in Afghanistan

How an international skiing scene developed in the mountains of Bamiyan province in 2011

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The Port Said stadium riot

How 74 people were killed in one of the worst disasters in football history in 2012.

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Novak Djokovic: The road to success

Nikola Pilic, one of the Serbian player's mentors, remembers training him as a teenager.

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India's Luge pioneer

Shiva Keshavan took part in one of the most dangerous Winter Olympic sports aged just 16.

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Vonetta Flowers: The first black Winter Olympic champion

How the American bobsledder made history at the 2002 games in Utah

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Morten Andersen: The NFL Hall of Fame kicker

How a Danish kid became a record-breaking kicker in American football

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Dan Jansen - from tragedy to triumph

The American speed-skater who overcame grief to win Olympic gold.

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The Queen of Paralympic Snowboarding

Bibian Mentel-Spee campaigned for her event to be in the games, then won the first Gold.

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The first Winter Paralympic Games

Two athletes from Finland and Britain remember the inaugural Winter Paralympics in 1976.

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Kelly Gallagher

How the visually-impaired skier from Northern Ireland won Team GB's first Paralympic gold

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Saving Fabrice Muamba

The cardiologist who saved the Bolton footballer after he had a heart attack on the pitch

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The women cross-country skiers who fought to race

How women won the right to compete in the hugely popular Vasaloppet event in Sweden

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Tanya Streeter

In 2002, free diver Tanya Streeter attempted to reach a record depth of 160m.

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The Mozart of Table Tennis

Swedish ping pong player Jan-Ove Waldner is a legend in his own country - and in China.

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Cricket in North Korea

In 2008, a group of western cricketers took their sport to the Axis of Evil.

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Jahangir Khan: The king of squash

The legendary Pakistani player who went undefeated for five years in the 1980s

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Janet Guthrie: The first woman at the Indianapolis 500

How the pioneering racing driver broke the gender barrier at America's top motor race

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Man City win their first Premier League

Defender Micah Richards on the most exciting finish ever to the English football season

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The footballer trapped in Syria

How Nigerian Olaniyi Gideon was caught up in the Civil War in Syria while at a local club

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Ryneldi Becenti - Native American basketball hero

How the first Native American to play in the NBA inspired her community in the 1990s

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