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The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history
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The 1981 film Escape To Victory is a World War Two tale of a football match in a prisoner of war camp in Nazi Germany starring Sylvester Sta...
In the 1990s, rollerblading had separate competitions for men and women. That changed in 2000, when the two were combined into one mixed com...
In April 2001, the small island nation of American Samoa took on Australia in the World Cup qualifiers. You could only play for the team if...
In November 1993, James Miller interrupted the highly anticipated world heavyweight championship rematch between Evander Holyfield and Riddi...
On 5 August 1970, a pre-season match between second division Hull City and European giants Manchester United changed football forever. With...
In 1996, the Czech Republic played in their first major football tournament since the country's formation three years earlier. The unfancied...
Nathalie Amiel was a star of French rugby for more than fifteen years, from when she started playing internationally aged 15. She was part o...
In 1977, Michael Jay from England becomes the first foreigner to take part in the Soma Nomaoi which celebrates classical martial arts and mi...
In 1952, the Summer Olympics took place at the height of the Cold War in Helsinki, Finland. Czechoslovak army officer Emil Zatopek achieved...
In 1995, Canadian BMXer Jay Miron took part in the first ever Extreme Games. A celebration of action sports like skateboarding and BMXing, t...
In the 1970s and 80s the sport of darts was booming in the UK. It was on TV almost every week and the sport’s stars were household names. Bu...
In 2003, skiing history was made when Croatian siblings Janica and Ivica Kostelić became the first sister-brother duo to win World Cup Alpin...
In 2004 a rugby union team was formed in the Syrian capital Damascus. It consisted of British and French players working in the country, and...
In 1948, London hosted the first Olympic Games after World War Two, but when it came to the hockey final, it was newly independent India who...
At the Portuguese Grand Prix in 1985, three-time Formula 1 World Champion Ayrton Senna won his first race. In torrential rain, Senna dominat...
Imagine creating a swimsuit so good it would have to be banned. That's what Jason Rance and his team at Speedo did ahead of the Beijing Olym...
In 2009, British 17-year-old Ben Greenhalgh won a reality TV show called Football's Next Star, earning him a six-month contract to play for...
In the 1990s, businessman Ramm Mylavaganam created a new way to analyse football matches, which would change how managers and coaches saw th...
In August 1961, the Soviet Union began building a wall between East and West Berlin. Weeks after construction began, the Scotland internatio...
How an international skiing scene developed in the mountains of Bamiyan province in 2011. Long: In 2011, the rugged mountains of Bamiyan Pro...
The Nigerian national women’s football team were the first African team to reach the inaugural FIFA Women’s World Cup Tournament in China in...
In 1986, Magi Haroun began her career in football photography. She would become the first female photographer in the Premier League in the 1...
In the 2005 Ashes series in England, substitute fielder Gary Pratt grabbed the headlines when he ran out Australian captain Ricky Ponting in...
On 19 November 2004, a heated NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons spiralled into one of the most infamous brawls in spor...
In 2003, Italian top-flight side Perugia made an unusual signing: Al-Saadi Gaddafi, the son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. It was seen...
Ahead of Australia's most famous horse race, the Melbourne Cup, we go back 10 years to when Michelle Payne was the first, and so far only, f...
With both her parents and brothers surfing, it was natural that Peruvian Sofia Mulanovich got into the sport at the age of three. As a teena...
In 2015 Mira Rai took the international sky running scene by storm, winning gold medals in ultra-endurance running events ranging from 50-15...
At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, in South Korea, Greg Louganis hit his head on the springboard. It was during the preliminary rounds while he was...
In October 1972, the first ever Esports tournament was held at California's Stanford University. Now a multi-billion dollar industry, thousa...
On October 1 1975, the third and final fight between bitter rivals Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, known as the Thrilla in Manila, took place...
At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, the final of the women’s high jump came down to two world record holders. One of them was already an Ol...
In 2004, the Indian long-distance swimmer Bula Choudhury became the first woman to complete the challenge of crossing straits of the world’s...
In 1999, reigning WBC welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya - the “golden boy” of boxing – was facing criticism over the quality of the opp...
In 1989, Chile faced Brazil in a crucial World Cup qualifying match at the iconic Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro. During the game, a fla...
In 1991, English players wanted the first Women's Rugby World Cup to be close to home because of travel costs. With little help from the spo...
It was during the 1966 World Cup match between England and Argentina that one of England’s leading professional referees, Ken Aston, had an...
At the London 2012 Olympics, a women’s doubles badminton match between China and South Korea caused controversy when the four players were d...
Australian driver Jack Brabham was a pioneer in the 1960s, winning an Formula 1 world title in1966 in a car he built himself – a remarkable...
Between 1982 and 1984, UEFA held the first European Competition for Women's Football. Sixteen teams battled it out across Europe. The final...
Christy Ring was one of Ireland’s greatest hurling players. His career spanned three decades and he achieved many accolades including eight...
In July 1990, West Germany won the World Cup for the third time, beating Argentina 1-0 in Rome. The shirt the victorious players were wearin...
It's been fifty years since Arthur Ashe beat defending champion and fellow American Jimmy Connors to become the first African-American man t...
In 1974, East Germany beat West Germany in a World Cup match in Hamburg. Afterwards, on a flight, the West German Finance Minister, Hans Ape...
In 1995, post-apartheid South Africa hosted, and won, the Rugby World Cup. It was a hugely unifying moment for the country. In 2013, Rob Bon...
In 1994, as the genocide in Rwanda against the Tutsi minority unfolded, goalkeeper Eric Murangwa Eugene’s life was in danger. Being a Tutsi,...
Dutch goalkeeper Eddy Treijtel played for Rotterdam giants, Feyenoord, more than 300 times. But one of his most talked about moments happene...
Bayern Munich were minutes away from winning the Champions League in 1999, before two late Manchester United goals. In 2001, they had a chan...
In 2000, Mongolian wrestlers began to transform the traditional Japanese sport of sumo, introducing innovative techniques and reshaping the...
In May 1985 Hong Kong inflicted an unexpected footballing defeat on their neighbours and rivals China in a World Cup qualifying game in Beij...
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