Learie Constantine - West Indies cricket pioneer

How the West Indian all-rounder took England by storm in the 1920s and 30s.

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Stop the Springboks

How campaigners used direct action to stop South Africa's apartheid teams touring the UK

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Joey Dunlop - Northern Ireland's motorsport hero

The motorbike world champion whose high-speed triumphs united a divided country

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The yachting rescue that gripped the world

Pete Goss’s heroic solo rescue during the 1996 Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race

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Cameron Hughes - sports entertainer

The Canadian who's made a career out of dancing at big sports events around the world

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Brad Snyder - From the battlefield to Paralympic gold

The American serviceman who won swimming glory a year after being blinded by a bomb

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The woman who won the Paris-Dakar rally

In January 2001, Germany's Jutta Kleinschmidt won one of the biggest races in motorsport

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Lucas Radebe

The Leeds United legend who won the Africa Cup of Nations with South Africa in 1996

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Mianne Bagger - Golf's transgender pioneer

In 2004, Mianne Bagger became the first transitioned woman to play professional golf

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The NFL's Rooney Rule

The activist and champion who pushed for American football's landmark diversity policy

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Nova Peris - Australia's first aboriginal Olympic champion

How the hockey-player from Darwin broke barriers by winning an Olympic gold medal in 1996

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The first woman to play in the NHL

Manon Rhéaume became the first and only woman to play in the National Hockey League

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The Gay Games

The first international sports event for LGBT athletes was held in San Francisco in 1982.

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Zimbabwe's Paralympic pioneer

How Elliot Mujaji won the first ever Paralympic gold medal for his country in 2000.

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The Palestinian women's football team

How Honey Thaljieh started a soccer team for women in the occupied West Bank

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When Col Gaddafi's son played football in Italy's Serie A

In 2003, A.C. Perugia signed Al-Saadi Gaddafi, the son of the Libyan dictator

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Fighting for women's boxing

The story of Gail Grandchamp, who campaigned for the right of women to box in the USA.

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Ghana's runaway sprinters

How two Ghanaian athletes escaped during the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand in 1990

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Kuwait at the football World Cup

The Gulf state's first and only World Cup appearance, with a camel as team mascot

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The athlete who changed the rules on sex tests

How a Spanish woman hurdler won the right to compete despite having male chromosomes

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The Scottish club that toppled Real Madrid

Led by Alex Ferguson, Aberdeen beat the Spanish giants to win a European trophy in 1983

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Anthony Robles

The one-legged wrestler who won a national college title in the United States in 2011

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Indonesia's badminton heroine

How Susi Susanti won the first Olympic gold medal for her badminton-obsessed country

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Arsenal's last-minute championship win

In 1989 Arsenal won the English football league with an extra-time goal against Liverpool

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Maria Mutola - Mozambique's athletics queen

How the legendary 800-metre runner finally won an Olympic gold medal in 2000

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Enith Brigitha - First black swimmer to win an Olympic medal

In 1976, the Dutch swimmer blazed the trail for future black athletes in swimming

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Denmark's shock Euros win

How the Danes won the Euro 92 championship despite not even qualifying for the tournament

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The Van Basten wonder goal

How an amazing volley gave Holland their first victory at a big international tournament

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Football's Coming Home

How England sparked a mood of national euphoria at Euro 96 before it ended in tears

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The Panenka penalty

How the Czechoslovak midfielder created a daring new style of penalty at Euro 76

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