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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Signing Michael Jordan

How the Chicago Bulls managed to pick the basketball legend in the 1984 NBA draft.

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Wimbledon Pioneers

The women's doubles partnership who broke new ground for Jewish and Black players

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The Indomitable Lions

How Cameroon shocked Maradona's Argentina at the 1990 World Cup

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FA Cup Giantkillers

How tiny Hereford United won a famous FA Cup victory over Newcastle in 1972

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The Harlem Globetrotters in the Soviet Union

How the American showmen won over basketball fans in Moscow during the Cold War

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South Africa win the Africa Cup of Nations

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

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Skating's Battle of the Brians

The 1988 Winter Olympic showdown between American Brian Boitano and Canadian Brian Orser

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The Ice Bowl

How the coldest game in American Football made the reputation of the Green Bay Packers

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The Black Stars of Ghana

How the Ghanaian football team won a famous Africa Cup of Nations victory in 1965

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Surfing Mavericks

The Californian who pioneered one of the most famous surfing breaks in the world in 1975

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Beryl Burton - The Yorkshire Dynamo

The story of one of the best woman cyclists of all time and a record that still stands.

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Boat Race Mutiny

In 1987, a group of Oxford University rowers led a famous rebellion against their coach.

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