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Sporting Witness Episodes

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    Rajeev Bagga: Deaflympic badminton champion

    In 2005, badminton champion Rajeev Bagga took his total of Deaflympic gold medals to 14

  2. F1's only six-wheeled winner

    In 1976, the first person won a Formula One race in a six-wheeled car

  3. Women's Marathon Agony

    In 1984, Gabriela Andersen-Scheiss completed the Olympic marathon in terrible pain

  4. International football's biggest ever beating

    How American Samoa were beaten 31-0 by Australia in the 2002 World Cup qualifiers

  5. Zamalek Stadium Disaster

    One of Africa's worst sporting disasters happened in Cairo in 1974

  6. Victory for South Africa: The Africa Cup of Nations

    How a football victory in 1996 helped South Africa heal the wounds of apartheid

  7. Lamine Gueye: Senegalese skiier

    The story of the first black African to compete at the Winter Olympics

  8. Lin Dan: Badminton's all time superstar

    How badminton player Lin Dan won the Super Grand Slam - all 9 major titles in the sport

  9. The Elfstedentocht

    How only 69 of the 10,000 skaters finished in one of the world's toughest ice races

  10. Sven-Goran Eriksson: England's first foreign manager

    In 2000, Swede Sven-Goran Eriksson became manager of England鈥檚 men鈥檚 football team.

  11. Vanderlei de Lima and the sabotaged Olympic marathon

    Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima on how his lead in the 2004 Olympic marathon was destroyed

  12. The man who skied down Everest

    How Japanese alpinist Yuichiro Miura became the first person to ski on Everest in 1970

  13. Caster Semenya

    In 2009, world champion runner Caster Semenya faced questions about her gender

  14. Roger Federer's first Men's Wimbledon win

    How Roger Federer won the Wimbledon Men鈥檚 title for the first time in 2003

  15. The birth of the Fifa computer game

    Jan Tian says his devotion to coding the first EA Sports Fifa game nearly broke him

  16. When West Brom went to China

    In 1978, West Bromwich Albion became British ambassadors in China.

  17. The lost tapes of a Manchester United hero

    The lost memoir of former Manchester United keeper, Les Sealey

  18. The creation of chessboxing

    How Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh combined two of his passions 鈥� chess and boxing

  19. Lindsey Jacobellis: Almost

    How snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis lost gold in 2006's Winter Olympics

  20. Egypt鈥檚 Africa Cup of Nations hat-trick

    In 2010, Egypt completed an unprecedented treble in the Africa Cup of Nations.

  21. England win the Rugby World Cup

    Sir Clive Woodward and George Gregan recount England's victory over Australia in 2003

  22. Meeting Mr Pilates

    Joseph Pilates taught his fitness method in a studio in New York to Mary Bowen

  23. 1964: When surfing came to Australia

    How Manly Beach in Australia hosted the first official World Surfing Championships.

  24. The Netherlands beat England at the 成人快手 of Cricket

    How the Netherlands embarrased England at Lord's in the 2009 T20 Cricket World Cup

  25. Cara Honeychurch's tenpin strike

    Tenpin bowler Cara Honeychurch on her streak of becoming World and Commonwealth champion.

  26. The first hijabi figure skater

    Zahra Lari made history by becoming the first figure skater to compete in a hijab

  27. Chuck Wepner: The real-life Rocky who floored Ali

    How American boxer Chuck Wepner knocked Muhammad Ali to the canvas in 1975

  28. Rugby's greatest upset

    How Japan shook the world by beating South Africa at the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup

  29. The first cricket helmet

    In 1977, batsman Dennis Amiss was the first cricketer to wear a protective helmet.

  30. Pat Rafter wins The US Open

    How the Australian tennis player surprised the world by winning The US Open in 1997

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