Bangladesh's football heroes

How the national football team helped the country's fight for independence in 1971.

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Nigeria's Paralympic heroine

The shot-putter with dwarfism whose gold medal celebration went viral on social media.

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Yale women rowers protest

In 1976, the Yale rowing team stripped naked to demand equal treatment for women's sport.

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Skiing in Afghanistan

How an international skiing scene developed in the mountains of Bamiyan province in 2011

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The Port Said stadium riot

How 74 people were killed in one of the worst disasters in football history in 2012.

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Novak Djokovic: The road to success

Nikola Pilic, one of the Serbian player's mentors, remembers training him as a teenager.

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India's Luge pioneer

Shiva Keshavan took part in one of the most dangerous Winter Olympic sports aged just 16.

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Vonetta Flowers: The first black Winter Olympic champion

How the American bobsledder made history at the 2002 games in Utah

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Morten Andersen: The NFL Hall of Fame kicker

How a Danish kid became a record-breaking kicker in American football

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Dan Jansen - from tragedy to triumph

The American speed-skater who overcame grief to win Olympic gold.

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The Queen of Paralympic Snowboarding

Bibian Mentel-Spee campaigned for her event to be in the games, then won the first Gold.

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The first Winter Paralympic Games

Two athletes from Finland and Britain remember the inaugural Winter Paralympics in 1976.

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Kelly Gallagher

How the visually-impaired skier from Northern Ireland won Team GB's first Paralympic gold

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Saving Fabrice Muamba

The cardiologist who saved the Bolton footballer after he had a heart attack on the pitch

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The women cross-country skiers who fought to race

How women won the right to compete in the hugely popular Vasaloppet event in Sweden

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Tanya Streeter

In 2002, free diver Tanya Streeter attempted to reach a record depth of 160m.

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The Mozart of Table Tennis

Swedish ping pong player Jan-Ove Waldner is a legend in his own country - and in China.

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Cricket in North Korea

In 2008, a group of western cricketers took their sport to the Axis of Evil.

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Jahangir Khan: The king of squash

The legendary Pakistani player who went undefeated for five years in the 1980s

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Janet Guthrie: The first woman at the Indianapolis 500

How the pioneering racing driver broke the gender barrier at America's top motor race

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Man City win their first Premier League

Defender Micah Richards on the most exciting finish ever to the English football season.

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The footballer trapped in Syria

How Nigerian Olaniyi Gideon was caught up in the Civil War in Syria while at a local club

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Ryneldi Becenti - Native American basketball hero

How the first Native American to play in the NBA inspired her community in the 1990s

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The Miracle of Istanbul

Liverpool's incredible comeback to win the Champions League final in 2005

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Protesting against the US National Anthem

NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf refused to stand for the American flag in protest in 1996

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Diving into the world's largest iceberg

Canadian diver Jill Heinerth was the first woman to enter the caves of a giant iceberg

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Baseball's bionic man

The revolutionary surgery that saved baseball pitcher Tommy John's elbow and career.

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The longest tennis match of all time

John Isner and Nicolas Mahut battle it out at Wimbledon in the longest match of all time.

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Jens Voigt: Riding the Tour De France on a child's bike

The unusual solution that kept a cyclist in one of the world's greatest races

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Nadine Angerer: Germany’s penalty-saving heroine

How Nadine Angerer became Germany's penalty saving heroine

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