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.

• 9 mins

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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Afghanistan's cricket heroes

How Afghan cricketers lifted the nation's spirits by reaching their first big tournament

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Coe vs Ovett

British runner Sebastian Coe remembers his rivalry with Steve Ovett at the 1980 Olympics

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The first woman to climb Everest

Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest

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Tears of a weightlifter

In 2008, Matthias Steiner overcame personal tragedy to win an emotional Olympic gold

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Chak de India!

How India's female hockey stars inspired a generation of sportswomen and a Bollywood film

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Tasha Danvers - motherhood and elite performance

The British hurdler who overcame private emotional struggles to win an Olympic bronze

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Lucy Ejike - Nigeria's powerlifting hero

The story of Nigeria's most successful female paralympian.

• 9 mins

Cycling's 'Everesting' challenge

Why cyclists in lockdown are riding the equivalent of climbing the world's highest peak

• 9 mins

Australia's 'Madam Butterfly'

Susie O'Neill experienced the joy of victory and the agony of defeat at her home Olympics

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Cathy Freeman

The aboriginal runner who became the hero of the Sydney Olympics in 2000

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South Africa's black rowing hero

How Sizwe Ndlovu became the first black African to win an Olympic rowing gold in 2012.

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Africa's football revolution

Ex-Premiership star Kolo Toure on how a team in Ivory Coast modernised football in Africa

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Surfing the world's biggest waves

Garrett McNamara broke the world record for biggest wave ever surfed in 2011 at Nazaré

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Viv Anderson - first black England footballer

In November 1978, the defender became the first black Englishman to play for his country.

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Natalia Partyka - Youngest paralympian

The Polish table tennis champion who began her Paralympic career aged just 11.

• 9 mins

India's Queen of the Oceans

How Bula Choudhury was the first woman to swim straits of the world's seven seas.

• 9 mins

The 'Blind Maradona'

The story of Silvio Velo, the captain of Argentina's world-beating blind football team

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