The BBC's first female football reporter

In 1969, Mary Raine became the first woman to report on football for the BBC.

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Wrexham's FA Cup giant-killing

In January 1992, the small Welsh club beat reigning English champions Arsenal.

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Togo bus attack

In 2010, Angolan rebels opened fire on the team buses of the Togolese football team.

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P.T. Usha - India's 'queen of track and field'

How the fastest woman in India came agonisingly close to Olympic glory in 1984

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Stanley Matthews' Soweto team

How an English soccer legend ran a team of black players in apartheid-era South Africa

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Rocky Bleier: The legendary comeback

How a wounded Vietnam war veteran became an NFL Super Bowl champion.

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Knocking down Mike Tyson

In 1990, outsider James "Buster" Douglas defeated one of boxing's greatest champions.

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Nancy Greene: The 'Tiger' of women's skiing

How the Canadian became a national hero after winning Olympic gold in 1968

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Kenya's first Winter Olympian

In 1998, a farmer called Philip Boit competed in the gruelling cross-country ski event.

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India's luge pioneer

How Shiva Keshavan took part in one of the most dangerous Winter Olympic sports at 16.

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Colin McRae: Rally legend

How the Scottish driver became the youngest ever rally World Champion in 1995

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The remarkable life of Eva Szekely

The remarkable life of Hungarian Olympic swimmer and Holocaust survivor, Eva Szekely

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Death at the Cricket World Cup

How the death of top coach Bob Woolmer threw cricket into turmoil in 2007.

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Ironman's Ironwoman

Julie Moss put Ironman on the map by crawling to the finish of the World Championship.

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The perfect bull-ride

In 1991, Wade Leslie became the first and only cowboy to achieve the maximum rodeo score.

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Why I designed the prosthetic running leg

The inventor of the Cheetah Foot on the accident that led him to revolutionise para-sport

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Parkour

How French teenagers invented a sport by running, jumping and vaulting around their town.

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Mary Peters

How the Northern Irish pentathlete became a hero for winning gold at the 1972 Olympics.

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Defying the Taliban

How Pakistan's Maria Toorpakai Wazir battled death threats to become a squash player.

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The 'Crazy Gang' win the FA Cup

How Wimbledon won a shock victory over the mighty Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup Final

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Fausto Coppi - Il Campionissimo

The great Italian cyclist whose private life scandalized Italy in the 1950s.

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The Matthews Final

How legendary English footballer Stanley Matthews won the FA Cup for his team in 1953.

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Tofiri Kibuuka - Africa's paralympic pioneer

The blind athlete who competed in both the winter and summer Paralympic games.

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Ibtihaj Muhammad - Fencing in a hijab

The inspiring story of the first Muslim-American to wear a hijab at the Olympics.

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Rulon Gardner - Wrestling Hero

How the son of American farmers defeated a Russian champion considered unbeatable.

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Clyde Best: A black footballing pioneer

The Bermuda-born West Ham striker recalls the rampant racism in 1970s English football

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Cheerleading's first World Championships

The first Cheerleading Worlds were held in 2004 at Walt Disney World in Florida.

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Greece's stunning football triumph

How rank outsiders Greece won the 2004 European Football Championship.

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Andre Agassi

The private emotional struggles of the 1992 Wimbledon tennis champion

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Beckham in Hollywood

The glitz and glamour of David Beckham's signing for Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007

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