Australia's 'Madam Butterfly'

Susie O'Neill experienced the joy of victory and the agony of defeat at her home Olympics

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Cathy Freeman

The aboriginal runner who became the hero of the Sydney Olympics in 2000

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South Africa's black rowing hero

How Sizwe Ndlovu became the first black African to win an Olympic rowing gold in 2012.

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Africa's football revolution

Ex-Premiership star Kolo Toure on how a team in Ivory Coast modernised football in Africa

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Surfing the world's biggest waves

Garrett McNamara broke the world record for biggest wave ever surfed in 2011 at Nazaré

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Viv Anderson - first black England footballer

In November 1978, the defender became the first black Englishman to play for his country.

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Natalia Partyka - Youngest paralympian

The Polish table tennis champion who began her Paralympic career aged just 11.

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India's Queen of the Oceans

How Bula Choudhury was the first woman to swim straits of the world's seven seas.

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The 'Blind Maradona'

The story of Silvio Velo, the captain of Argentina's world-beating blind football team

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Judit Polgar - the chess champion who defied stereotypes

How the chess prodigy overcame sexism in her sport and defeated the all-time greats.

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Maradona and the "Hand of God" goal

Ex-England striker Gary Lineker on Maradona's legendary World Cup quarter-final in 1986

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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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