Sporting Witness Episodes Episode guide
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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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The first Basketball World Cup
In 1950, Argentina hosted, and won, the inaugural Basketball World 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 Vatican's mini-World Cup
In 2007, trainee priests competed to win the first football Clericus Cup
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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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Calciopoli: The Juventus scandal
In 2006, a match-fixing scandal rocked Italian football
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Tiger Woods wins his first major
At the age of 21, Tiger Woods won the US Masters in 1997 by dominating the golf course
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First woman to win Olympic gold in windsurfing
Barbara Kendall overcame injury to win gold in windsurfing at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics
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Kenya's first Winter Olympian
How cross-country skiing united a Kenyan farmer and a Norwegian Winter Olympic hero.
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The Maccabiah Games
The first Maccabiah Games, a multi-sport event for Jewish athletes, were held in 1932
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The Mongol Rally: Racing in one of the greatest road trips on Earth
Racing from England to Mongolia in a car with a tiny engine
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Nicol David: How to be a number 1 squash player for 9 years
Nicol David on becoming world number 1 in squash and staying there for 9 years in a row.
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Ruud Krol: The World Cup meets Total Football
How the Netherlands' style and flair stole the show at the 1974 World Cup
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Zaire's infamous World Cup free-kick moment
How Zaire's reaction to Brazil's free-kick in the 1974 World Cup became folklore.
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Kuwait at the 1982 World Cup
The Gulf state's first and only World Cup appearance, with a camel as team mascot
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When Diana Ross missed a penalty at the World Cup
Diana Ross' iconic penalty miss at the 1994 World Cup
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The Golden Girls of Zimbabwe
How the women's hockey team won an unexpected first Olympic gold in 1980
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Tonton Zola Moukoko: The best Championship Manager player ever
The cult hero whose real life didn't match his computer stardom
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The day we beat the All Blacks
Gareth Jenkins relives Llanelli Rugby Club’s iconic 1972 victory over the All Blacks.
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How baseball helped bridge the US-Cuba divide
How the Baltimore Orioles became the first Major League team to play in communist Cuba
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China's first golf champion
Shanshan Feng was the first Chinese golfer ever to win a major championship back in 2012.
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The bizarre twist in South Africa’s ultramarathon
Runner Nick Bester notices something suspicious at South Africa’s Comrades ultramarathon.
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How I helped bring down Lance Armstrong
One journalist's 12 year pursuit of drug cheat Lance Armstrong
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Derartu Tulu: Africa's first black female Olympic champion
Derartu Tulu became the first black African woman to win gold in Barcelona in 1992
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Rose Reilly
Banned from playing football in her native Scotland, Rose Reilly represented Italy.
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Kosovo’s first Olympic medal
Majlinda Kelmendi won the first medal for Kosovo since the country gained independence.
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Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson was disqualified 48 hours after winning the Olympic 100 metre final in 1988
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Coaching the world's best tennis players
Tennis coach Rick Macci on training future world number ones Serena and Venus Williams
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The most controversial three seconds in basketball history
The USSR faced the USA in the 1972 Olympic men's basketball final
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Sydney Olympics’ vault fault
At the Olympics in 2000, a fault with gymnastics equipment changed the course of a final