First women's cyclo-cross world championship

Female cyclo-cross riders take part at the world championship in 2000 for the first time

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The Vatican's mini-World Cup

In 2007, trainee priests competed to win the first football Clericus Cup

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Muay Thai: World champion Sylvie Von Duuglas-Ittu

American Sylvie Von Duuglas-Ittu became one of the most successful Muay Thai fighters

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The first Basketball World Cup

In 1950, Argentina hosted, and won, the inaugural Basketball World Cup

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The boxing referee who started a riot

A New Zealand referee quit after starting a riot during the Summer Olympics of 1988

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Irene Van Dyk: Netball’s goal shooting star

She is the most capped netballer of all time

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Ammo Baba: Iraq's footballing hero

The footballer and coach loved by the people of Iraq

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First women's Six Nations Rugby Championship

French rugby star Nathalie Amiel reflects on winning the first Six Nations in 2002

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The Marseille bribery and match fixing scandal

In 1993, European champions Marseille were charged with bribery and match fixing.

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Ernst van Dyk: Ten-time Boston Marathon winner

How wheelchair racer Ernst van Dyk won the Boston Marathon a record-breaking tenth time.

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Bomb scare at The Grand National

The story of the 150th Grand National which was disrupted by an IRA bomb scare.

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Winning the hardest dog-sled race in the world

In 1985, Libby Riddles became the first female winner of the Iditarod

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Indian weightlifting’s ‘Iron Lady’

How weightlifter Karnam Malleswari became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal

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The start of the J.League

How the first match of Japan's first professional football league kicked off in Tokyo

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Battle of Bramall Lane

The only game in English football history to be abandoned due to a shortage of players.

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Kabaddi’s Asian Games golden debut

The 2010 Asian Games saw women’s kabaddi included for the first time

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The Arsenal 'Invincibles'

When Arsenal went a full Premier League season unbeaten

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Albert Johanneson: The first black FA Cup finalist

How South African Albert Johanneson became the first black footballer in the FA Cup final.

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Man Vs Horse

Can a man beat a horse in a race? Since 1980 a Welsh town has been trying to find out

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Mitchell Johnson's Ashes

How Australia's Mitchell Johnson recovered from ridicule and destroyed England's batsmen

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Shun Fujimoto - Japan's injured Olympic hero

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

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The first Homeless World Cup

How the football tournament first came about and challenged perceptions of homelessness.

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Chris Lewis shocks Wimbledon

How New Zealand's Chris Lewis, ranked 91 in the world, reached the Wimbledon men's final.

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Jana Novotna: From choker to champion

How the Czech player fought back from a tearful defeat to finally win Wimbledon in 1998

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The first Women's World Cup sticker album

How Panini made their first football World Cup sticker album for the women's tournament.

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First women's Tour de France

Marianne Martin talks about winning the first official women’s Tour De France in 1984

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Nigeria's path to the Women's World Cup

How the Nigerian women’s football team were the first African side in the 1991 World Cup.

• 8 mins

The first female NBA referee

In 1997 Violet Palmer stepped out on court to become the first female NBA referee

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Cricket's Blackwash test series

The West Indies beat England 5-0 in a 1984 test series that became known as Blackwash

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Pat Rafter wins The US Open

How the Australian tennis player surprised the world by winning The US Open in 1997

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