Chess City

In 1998, the world's most expensive chess centre opened in a remote region of Russia.

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Shaul Ladany - the Great Survivor

The Israeli race-walker who survived the Holocaust and the Munich Olympics shootings

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Terry Fox and the Marathon of Hope

The cancer patient who inspired Canada with an attempt to run across the country in 1980

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Dawn Fraser - Triple Olympic Champion

How the rebellious Australian swimmer shattered records in the 1950s and 60s

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The Golden Girls of Zimbabwe

How the women's hockey team won the first Olympic gold for their country in 1980.

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The Torino air disaster

In May 1949, a plane crash killed one of the greatest teams in Italian football history.

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Yugoslavia Football Riot

How violence at a Red Star Belgrade vs Dinamo Zagreb game heralded the war in Yugoslavia.

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The 1976 US Olympic Boxing Team

The American boxers acclaimed for one of the best team performances in Olympic history.

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Bangladesh's Channel Swimmer Hero

How Brojen Das broke the world record for swimming from France to England in 1961.

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Denmark's Shock Win at the European Championship

How the Danish football team won the Euro 1992 tournament despite failing to qualify

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Pyrros Dimas - Greek Weightlifting Legend

How the 'Lion of Himara' became a Greek hero by battling injury at the Athens Olympics

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Shun Fujimoto - Japan's Injured Olympic Hero

The Japanese gymnast who won gold in 1976 despite competing with a broken knee

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Arthur Ashe

In 1975, Arthur Ashe became the first African-American man to win Wimbledon

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Women's Marathon Agony

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

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East Timor's Marathon Hero

The journey of female marathoner Agueda Amaral from refugee to the Sydney Olympics.

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Niki Lauda Crashes

The 1976 motor racing crash which went down in Formula One history.

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Nigeria's Supereagles win Olympic Gold

In 1996, Nigeria became the first African team to take football gold at the Olympic Games

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Nadia Comaneci

The Romanian gymnast who scored the first "Perfect 10" at the Olympics in 1976.

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Emil Zatopek

The legendary Czechoslovak runner who won three golds at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.

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Eric Liddell

The story of the Scottish runner immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire.

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Willy T Ribbs

In 1991, an African-American driver raced the Indianapolis 500 for the first time

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Rwanda at the Paralympics

In 2012, Rwanda's sitting volleyball team became their country's first Paralympians.

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India's First Paralympic Hero

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

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Kenya's Paralympic Record-Breaker

How blind runner, Henry Wanyoike, set world records that stand to this day

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Lady Swimmers of the 1920s

How three British women swimmers took the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics by storm.

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The 'Black 14' Protest Rocks American Football

How black players at Wyoming University sparked a national debate over racism in 1969

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Meeting Mr Pilates

In the 1950s, Joseph Pilates taught his fitness method in a New York studio.

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The Black Power Salute

How two African-American athletes protested against racism at the 1968 Olympic Games.

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Blood in the Water

How tension between Hungary and the USSR turned into a battle at the 1956 Olympics

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Jason McCartney - Bali Bomb Survivor

The Aussie rules footballer who inspired a nation by surviving a terrorist attack

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