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2025-03-29

  WWE’s youngest female champion

In 2014, English wrestler Saraya-Jade Bevis became the youngest female champion in WWE history.Her life story – growing up in in a wrestling family – was turned into the Hollywood film Fighting with My Family, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.She tel... 		  BBC World Service author
2025-03-22

  Why I designed the prosthetic running leg

When sport enthusiast Van Phillips lost his foot in a water-skiing accident, he decided to design a prosthetic leg that allowed him to keep running.In 1984, he made the first prosthetic running leg using carbon graphite, which was light, flexible and s... 		  BBC World Service author
2025-03-15

  Becoming the 60m fastest woman in the world

At 60m, Nelli Cooman is a former indoor world record holder, running 7:00 seconds in 1986. It was the first time that indoor times were considered official records. Born in Suriname, she moved to the Netherlands aged eight. She was initially a football... 		  BBC World Service author
2025-03-08

  Murderball: inventing wheelchair rugby

In 1976, a group of friends invented a game at a rehab hospital in Canada, which they called 'murderball'. It was debuted at the World Wheelchair Games in 1990 and called wheelchair rugby. It became a full Paralympic Sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics i... 		  BBC World Service author
2025-03-01

  When Chelsea took on Tromsø in an Arctic blizzard

In the 1997 European Cup Winners’ Cup, FA Cup champions Chelsea played part-timers Tromsø at home – high in the Arctic north of Norway. The match was at times reduced to a farce as the two sides struggled to cope with heavy snow. Chelsea's manager Ruud... 		  BBC World Service author
2025-02-22

  Exploring the caves of the world's biggest iceberg

In 2000, a Canadian diver became the first person to explore the underwater caves of a giant iceberg.Jill Heinerth was already renowned for her exploits mapping vast underground cave networks in Florida. But when a vast iceberg known as B-15 broke away... 		  BBC World Service author
2025-02-15

  The woman who sailed solo around the world

In 1978, Naomi James became the first woman to sail single-handedly around the world via Cape Horn.At the time, Naomi had had only six weeks of sailing experience and had never been on her own on a boat. She also suffered seasickness, and struggled wit... 		  BBC World Service author
2025-02-08

  The Super Bowl helmet catch

In the final minutes of Super Bowl 42, the trailing New York Giants pulled off a move later described as “an insult to physics and Albert Einstein”. Quarterback Eli Manning sent the ball hurtling forward towards wide receiver David Tyree. As he leapt t... 		  BBC World Service author
2025-02-01

  George Best scores a double hat-trick

On 7 February 1970, footballing legend George Best returned from a month-long ban to score six goals in one game.The striker wanted to prove the critics wrong who said Manchester United had been playing better without him.Ray Fairfax, from Northampton ... 		  BBC World Service author
2025-01-25

  How Fanny Blankers-Koen became the 'flying housewife’

At the 1948 Olympics, one Dutch athlete showed that being a housewife and mother was no obstacle to Olympic glory.Fanny Blankers-Koen won gold in four events: the 100m and 200m sprints, the 80m hurdles and the 100m relay.But not all the attention was p... 		  BBC World Service author