BBC World Service - Sporting Witness

Algeria's Revolutionary Football Team

Algerian players secretly left their French clubs to form their own national team in 1958

The unlikely 1954 World Cup victory which restored West German pride after WW2

The epic race between America's top ultramarathon runner and an ancient Mexican tribe.

He scored a goal for the US and upon his return to Haiti was taken by the secret police

The racing driver who suffered a horrific crash, but then became a successful Paralympian

The Canadian rower who defied a horrific injury to win an Olympic medal in 1992

How the young Muhammad Ali became boxing world champion after two controversial fights.

How the legendary Austrian skier won one of the most exciting Olympic downhill races ever

In 1964, Britain won an Olympic event that became famous for an act of sportsmanship.

At the 1980 Winter Olympics, the USA faced the USSR in a Cold War hockey showdown.