Sporting Witness
The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00j2pn5
- Description
- The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-21 20:39
- last episode published
- 2025-01-18 06:00
- publication frequency
- 8.27 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 596
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Episodes
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| 2025-01-18 | In 2009, Ram Barkai, a swimmer from Cape Town, in South Africa, broke the world record for the longest swim in freezing cold water. He completed the endurance feat wearing only a cap, goggles and standard swimming costume.Delighted with his achievement... |
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| 2025-01-11 | In 1983, the ultra-runner Ron Grant took on an epic challenge - to became the first person to run around Australia. The 13,383 kilometre jog took him seven months.Grant overcame injuries, crew mutinies and serious financial debt, before being greeted b... |
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| 2025-01-04 | In 1987, Colonel Gaddafi, sponsored a struggling German ice hockey team called ECD Iserlohn. The Libyan dictator paid a million dollars for the team to wear an image of his infamous “Green Book” on their kits, but the sponsorship deal outraged fans and... |
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| 2024-12-28 | In 2005, British motorcycle rider, Maria Costello, became the first ever woman to reach the podium at the infamous Isle of Man TT course.In doing so, she also became the fastest woman ever around the course.The Isle of Man TT is one of the most challen... |
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| 2024-12-21 | In March 1975, West Germany – the newly crowned world champions – came to London’s Wembley Stadium for a friendly against England.Among the German squad was a 28-year-old striker who’d already attracted a lot of attention from the British media: not be... |
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| 2024-12-14 | In 2014, fighter Cecilia Braekhus helped end Norway’s 33 year ban on professional boxing, thanks to a parliamentary points decision. The so-called ‘knockout’ law had been in place since 1981 because the Norwegian parliament thought professional fights ... |
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| 2024-12-07 | In 2004, the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico went into their opening basketball game of the Athens Olympics as massive underdogs against the USA. The Puerto Rican side had lost five consecutive games by double digit points to the USA's star-studded squ... |
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| 2024-11-30 | The Norwegian chess grandmaster, Magnus Carlsen, has been known as the "Mozart of chess" since childhood. In 2014, he became the first player ever to win all three world chess titles in one year, achieving the highest official rating of any player in h... |
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| 2024-11-23 | In 1992 history was made at the Olympics in Barcelona as 12 former Soviet republics competed for the first and only time as the Unified Team. It was the final time the countries who had been part of the USSR took part in sporting events as the same tea... |
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| 2024-11-16 | Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer were the undisputed King of Clay and King of Grass respectively. But who would win on a hybrid court made up of half grass and half clay? That was the idea from Argentinean creative entrepreneur and tennis fan Pablo del C... |
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