Red Card for Zidane

The referee who sent off the legendary French player in the 2006 World Cup final.

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Peru Stadium Riot

In May 1964, more than 300 people died at a football game between Peru and Argentina.

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Barry McGuigan unites Ireland

How the boxer's world championship bid brought together all sides in Northern Ireland.

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Michael Chang wins the French Open

The Chinese-American player who won his only major after the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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The Maracanazo: Brazil v Uruguay 1950

How Brazil was traumatised by losing the World Cup the last time it was played there

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Andres Escobar

The Colombian defender murdered after scoring an own goal at the World Cup in 1994

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South Korea wow the World Cup

How South Korea beat some of the top teams in Europe in 2002 thanks to home support.

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Argentina at World Cup 78

How Argentina won its first World Cup when hosting the tournament under military rule.

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The Magical Magyars

How Hungary's footballers hammered mighty England 6-3 at Wembley in 1953.

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Eddy Merckx: The Fall of 'The Cannibal'

In 1975, the great Tour de France rider lost the race after being punched by a spectator

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The Boycott Games

The last time the Commonwealth Games were in Scotland many African nations boycotted them

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Milkha Singh - The Flying Sikh

The remarkable life-story of the first Indian runner to win a Commonwealth Games gold.

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Fastnet Yacht Disaster

In 1979, a freak storm hit a prestigious ocean race in the Irish Sea, killing 18 people.

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The Creation of Ironman

How the most extreme form of triathlon was invented in Hawaii in 1978

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The Grateful Dead Makes Lithuanian Basketball Bronze Possible

Funded partly by the US rock band the new independent nation beat the former Soviet Union

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The First Special Olympics

How the first games for athletes with intellectual disabilities was organised in 1968

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The D'Oliveira Affair

How the batsman sparked a row leading to the sporting isolation of apartheid South Africa

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The Auld Enemy: Scotland v England

How Scotland's footballers triumphed over the English at Wembley in 1967

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Ben Johnson

The Canadian sprinter disqualified for doping at the 1988 Olympics

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Ryder Cup - The War by the Shore

The bitter clash between the best golfers from the USA and Europe in 1991

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India's Hockey Gold

In 1948 at the 'austerity' Olympics, newly independent India won gold on the hockey pitch

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British Lions in Apartheid South Africa

In 1974 the British Lions made a famous and controversial rugby tour of South Africa.

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The Curse of the Bambino

How a misfield in the 1986 World Series convinced Boston Red Sox fans they were cursed.

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John Surtees - Motorsport Legend

Memories of the only man to win the world championship in Formula 1 and motorcycle racing

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The Three Degrees

How three black players revolutionised English football in the 1970s.

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Racing the Stasi

in 1964, East German cyclist, Dieter Wiedemann, defected for love and the Tour de France

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Pele joins the New York Cosmos

Clive Toye's account of Pele's shock move to a US soccer team in 1975

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Tegla Loroupe wins NY Marathon

How Tegla Loroupe became the first African woman to win a major marathon

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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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Pakistan's First Women Cricketers

The two Karachi women who blazed a trail for women's cricket.

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