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  1. 14/02/2026 GMT

    Personal stories of amazing moments from sporting history, told by people who were there

  2. 07/02/2026 GMT

    Personal stories of amazing moments from sporting history, told by people who were there

  3. Sporting Witness

    Personal stories of amazing moments from sporting history, told by people who were there

  4. Sporting Witness

    Personal stories of amazing moments from sporting history, told by people who were there

  5. Senna’s first Formula One win

    In 1985, Ayrton Senna won his first Formula One race in torrential rain

  6. The Nasa swimsuit that rocked the 2008 Olympics

    The swimsuit was worn to break 23 records in the Olympic pool before it was banned

  7. Football's Next Star

    In 2009, a TV show earned Ben Greenhalgh a contract at Italian Champions Inter Milan

  8. ProZone: football's data revolution

    In the 1990s, Ramm Mylvaganam came up with an idea that would revolutionise football

  9. A Cold War hockey match

    In 1961, after the Berlin wall went up, Scotland’s women’s hockey team faced West Germany

  10. Afghanistan’s international ski scene

    How the mountains of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan became a skiing hub

  11. Nigeria at the first Women’s World Cup

    In 1991, Nigeria became the first team from Africa to play at the FIFA Women’s World Cup

  12. The Premier League’s first female photographer

    Magi Haroun was the first female photographer in the Premier League

  13. 2005 Ashes: Pratt runs out Ponting

    Substitute fielder Gary Pratt runs out Australian captain Ricky Ponting

  14. Malice at the Palace

    How a NBA game spiralled into one of the most infamous brawls in sport's history.

  15. Colonel Gaddafi’s son plays in Italy’s top football league

    Italian top-flight side Perugia made the unusual signing of Al-Saadi Gaddafi in 2003

  16. The race that stops a nation

    Michelle Payne describes being the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup

  17. Sofia Mulanovich’s first world surfing championship win

    Peruvian Sofia Mulanovich became the first South American to win a world surfing title

  18. Mira Rai: Child soldier to sky runner

    Mira Rai served in the Nepalese civil war as a teenager before becoming a sky runner

  19. When Greg Louganis hit his head on a diving board

    At the Seoul 1988 Olympics, the US diver hit his head while attempting a reverse 2½ pike

  20. The first Esports tournament

    In 1972, the first ever Esports tournament was held at California's Stanford University

  21. Between two giants: Thrilla in Manila’s referee

    Carlos Padilla on refereeing Ali v Frazier in the Thrilla in Manila fight 50 years ago

  22. Second time around

    German high jumper Ulrike Nasse-Meyfarth on winning two Olympic golds 12 years apart

  23. Bula Choudhury – India's record breaking swimmer

    : In 2004 Bula Choudhury became the first woman to swim the straits of the seven seas

  24. Oscar De La Hoya: ‘I knocked him down, he knocked me down’

    WBC welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya's showdown against Ike Quartey from Ghana

  25. The photo which exposed a goalkeeper's fake injury

    In 1989, one photo caught Chile’s goalkeeper faking injury in a World Cup qualifier

  26. Organising the first Women's Rugby World Cup

    How four women organised the first Women's Rugby World Cup held in Britain in 1991

  27. The referee who invented the red card

    How a referee invented the red and yellow card system to caution and send off a player.

  28. Shuttlecock scandal

    The Olympic badminton match that should have been a classic, but caused a controversy

  29. Jack Brabham: A champion in his own construction

    Jack Brabham won the Formula 1 world title in 1966 in a car he built himself

  30. The first Women's Euros

    Between 1982 and 1984, UEFA held the first European Competition for Women's Football

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