France’s Euro 2000 triumph

Robert Pires on how the French became European champions in dramatic style

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Bjorn Borg

The Swedish tennis superstar who won Wimbledon five times in a row

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Stacy Dragila - Queen of the Women's Pole Vault

The American vaulter who won the first ever Olympic women's competition at Sydney 2000

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The first Tokyo Olympics

How a new modern Japan emerged on the world stage at the 1964 Olympic Games

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Zamzam Farah - Somalia's inspiring runner

The Somali 400-metre runner who was forced to seek asylum after the London 2012 Olympics

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The Golden Couple of the first Tokyo Olympics

British runners Ann Packer and Robbie Brightwell were stars of the 1964 Olympics

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Kenya's Paralympic Record-Breaker

How blind runner, Henry Wanyoike, set world records and won Paralympic golds.

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Hou Bin wows the world

The Chinese athlete who lit the Paralympic flame after a stunning feat of strength.

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Brazil's blind sprinting legend

How Terezinha Guilhermina went from a Brazilian favela to Paralympic glory.

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India's first Paralympic champion

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

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The struggle for women's football in Afghanistan

Former captain Shamila Kohestani on why football in Afghanistan was more than a game

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The Queen of Women's Beach Volleyball

How America’s Misty May-Treanor won an Olympic gold medal three times.

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Golf's 'war by the shore'

The bitter confrontation between the USA and Europe at the 1991 Ryder Cup

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Cameroon's Triple Jump Queen

How motherhood inspired Francoise Mbango to two Olympic gold medals.

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Japan's Keirin cycling phenomenon

How the uniquely Japanese track cycling event made its Olympic debut in 2000.

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Born to Run: Mexico's Tarahumara Indians

The epic race between America's top ultramarathon runner and an ancient Mexican tribe

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Heptathlon Queen

In 1988, the American athlete put in one of the greatest performances in Olympic history.

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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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Zola Budd

The South African-born runner remembers her famous collision with US rival Mary Decker.

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Lebanon's match-fixing scandal

The investigation that rocked Lebanese football and ruined the country's World Cup hopes.

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The woman who rowed the Atlantic

Tori Murden McClure built her own boat and became the first woman to row the Atlantic.

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Zenyatta

The superstar American race-horse who was the first mare to win the Breeders' Cup

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The football wages revolution

How England's top players fought for their salary cap to be lifted in 1961.

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The Tibetan football team

How a group of exiles set up the first Tibetan national team in 2001.

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Bangladesh's football heroes

How the national football team helped the country's fight for independence in 1971.

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Nigeria's Paralympic heroine

The shot-putter with dwarfism whose gold medal celebration went viral on social media.

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Yale women rowers protest

In 1976, the Yale rowing team stripped naked to demand equal treatment for women's sport.

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Skiing in Afghanistan

How an international skiing scene developed in the mountains of Bamiyan province in 2011

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The Port Said stadium riot

How 74 people were killed in one of the worst disasters in football history in 2012.

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Novak Djokovic: The road to success

Nikola Pilic, one of the Serbian player's mentors, remembers training him as a teenager.

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