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Bangladesh's football heroes

In 1971, the Bangladeshi football team made history at the height of the country's war of...

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The Tibetan football team

In 2001, a group of Tibetan exiles and a Danish ex-footballer teamed up to create the Tibetan...

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The football wages revolution

In 1961, England’s top players threatened strike action in order to force the Football League to...

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Zenyatta

In November 2009, Zenyatta became the first – and only – mare to win the Breeders Cup Classic,...

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The woman who rowed the Atlantic

In December 1999, the American Tori Murden McClure became the first woman to row across the...

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Lebanon's match-fixing scandal

In 2011, the Lebanese national football team reached the final phase of World Cup qualification...

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Zola Budd

At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, South African-born Zola Budd collided with the home...

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The Dumptruck - King of Sumo

In the 1980s, a Hawaiian-born wrestler took the traditional world of Japanese Sumo by storm....

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Heptathlon Queen

In 1988, the American athlete, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, put in one of the greatest performances in...

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Born to Run - Mexico's Tarahumara Indians

In 2006, Scott Jurek, one of the world's best ultramarathon runners, travelled to the remote...

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Japan's Keirin cycling phenomenon

In the year 2000, the Japanese track cycling sport of Keirin made its Olympic debut at the Sydney...

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Cameroon's Triple Jump Queen

In 2004, the Cameroonian triple-jumper Francoise Mbango made headlines around the world when she...

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The Queen of Women's Beach Volleyball

America’s Misty May-Treanor is the winner of three Olympic gold medals and the most successful...

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The struggle for women's football in Afghanistan

In the early 2000s, Afghan women and girls set up the country's first football teams. Now the...

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India's first Paralympic champion

In 1972, war veteran Murlikant Petkar won India's first ever Paralympic gold medal at the...

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Hou Bin wows the world

At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing, Chinese athlete Hou Bin stunned the...

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Kenya's Paralympic Record-Breaker

In 1995, promising Kenyan runner Henry Wanyoike suffered a stroke and lost his sight. After...

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The Golden Couple of the first Tokyo Olympics

At the Tokyo 1964 Olympics, British sweethearts Ann Packer and Robbie Brightwell became household...

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Zamzam Farah - Somalia's inspiring runner

At the London 2012 Olympics, Somalia sprinter Zamzam Farah became a crowd favourite after...

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The first Tokyo Olympics

The first Olympic Games in Japan were held in 1964, less than 20 years after the country lost the...

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