Sporting Witness Episodes Episode guide
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Scouting Liverpool's greatest generation
In 1967, Geoff Twentyman joined Liverpool as a chief scout
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Alex Higgins: The rock star snooker legend
How Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins brought new audiences to snooker with his playboy lifestyle
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The first transgender pro golfer
In 2004, Mianne Bagger became the first transgender professional golfer
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The man who swam the Amazon
In 2007, Martin Strel became the first person to swim the entire length of the Amazon
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The plasterer who fought a boxing legend
Ten thousand people watched the unlikely fight in 1997
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First black cricketer to represent England
In 1980, Roland Butcher became the first black cricketer to play for the England team
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Rajeev Bagga: Deaflympic badminton champion
In 2005, badminton champion Rajeev Bagga took his total of Deaflympic gold medals to 14
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F1's only six-wheeled winner
In 1976, the first person won a Formula One race in a six-wheeled car
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Women's Marathon Agony
In 1984, Gabriela Andersen-Scheiss completed the Olympic marathon in terrible pain
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International football's biggest ever beating
How American Samoa were beaten 31-0 by Australia in the 2002 World Cup qualifiers
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Zamalek Stadium Disaster
One of Africa's worst sporting disasters happened in Cairo in 1974
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Victory for South Africa: The Africa Cup of Nations
How a football victory in 1996 helped South Africa heal the wounds of apartheid
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Lamine Gueye: Senegalese skiier
The story of the first black African to compete at the Winter Olympics
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Lin Dan: Badminton's all time superstar
How badminton player Lin Dan won the Super Grand Slam - all 9 major titles in the sport
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The Elfstedentocht
How only 69 of the 10,000 skaters finished in one of the world's toughest ice races
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Sven-Goran Eriksson: England's first foreign manager
In 2000, Swede Sven-Goran Eriksson became manager of England’s men’s football team.
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Vanderlei de Lima and the sabotaged Olympic marathon
Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima on how his lead in the 2004 Olympic marathon was destroyed
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The man who skied down Everest
How Japanese alpinist Yuichiro Miura became the first person to ski on Everest in 1970
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Caster Semenya
In 2009, world champion runner Caster Semenya faced questions about her gender
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Roger Federer's first Men's Wimbledon win
How Roger Federer won the Wimbledon Men’s title for the first time in 2003
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The birth of the Fifa computer game
Jan Tian says his devotion to coding the first EA Sports Fifa game nearly broke him
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When West Brom went to China
In 1978, West Bromwich Albion became British ambassadors in China.
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The lost tapes of a Manchester United hero
The lost memoir of former Manchester United keeper, Les Sealey
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The creation of chessboxing
How Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh combined two of his passions – chess and boxing
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Lindsey Jacobellis: Almost
How snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis lost gold in 2006's Winter Olympics
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Egypt’s Africa Cup of Nations hat-trick
In 2010, Egypt completed an unprecedented treble in the Africa Cup of Nations.
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England win the Rugby World Cup
Sir Clive Woodward and George Gregan recount England's victory over Australia in 2003
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Meeting Mr Pilates
Joseph Pilates taught his fitness method in a studio in New York to Mary Bowen
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1964: When surfing came to Australia
How Manly Beach in Australia hosted the first official World Surfing Championships.
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The Netherlands beat England at the Home of Cricket
How the Netherlands embarrased England at Lord's in the 2009 T20 Cricket World Cup