Sporting Witness

Olympic history

The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history.

Next Saturday 04:50 GMT

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa & Europe and the Middle East only

Upcoming episodes (9 new and 25 repeats)

Football history
Stories of historic football moments
Paralympic History
Stories from the Paralympic Games
Women in sport
Stories of female sporting achievement
Sporting Witness Films
Watch sporting heroes tell their stories of astonishing achievement
31-0: 'I was in goal during international football's biggest beating'

Nicky Salapu was American Samoa's goalkeeper on the day Australia beat them 31-0, in 2001
The Deaflympic badminton champion and his 'wrist of fury'

The badminton champion Rajeev Bagga has won 14 gold medals at the Deaflympics
'I'm not going to change who I am for anyone'

The first ice skater to compete in a hijab
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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