BBC World Service - Sporting Witness

First women's cyclo-cross world championship

Female cyclo-cross riders take part at the world championship in 2000 for the first time

In 2006, a match-fixing scandal rocked Italian football

At the age of 21, Tiger Woods won the US Masters in 1997 by dominating the golf course

Barbara Kendall overcame injury to win gold in windsurfing at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics

How cross-country skiing united a Kenyan farmer and a Norwegian Winter Olympic hero.

The first Maccabiah Games, a multi-sport event for Jewish athletes, were held in 1932

Racing from England to Mongolia in a car with a tiny engine

Nicol David on becoming world number 1 in squash and staying there for 9 years in a row.

How the Netherlands' style and flair stole the show at the 1974 World Cup

How Zaire's reaction to Brazil's free-kick in the 1974 World Cup became folklore.