Amazing Sport Stories Podcast
Sport but not as you know it. Amazing Sport Stories is about courage, underdogs, drama and myths and legends. Expect the unexpected.
Sport but not as you know it.Forget the champions. Amazing Sport Stories is about courage, underdogs, drama and myths and legends. These are global stories you鈥檒l wish you鈥檇 known about and now probably won鈥檛 forget. There are other podcasts about gold medals and millionaire superstars. Expect the unexpected. Tales from around the world, all told in mini-seasons and one-off episodes. #AmazingSportStories
Episodes to download
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Claressa Shields: Battles beyond boxing
Mon 23 Sep 2024
How a girl from one of America's most deprived cities became a boxing legend
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Tackles and tailenders
Mon 16 Sep 2024
Rudie van Vuuren, the Namibian doctor who played at both the cricket and rugby World Cups
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Just win the day
Mon 9 Sep 2024
Basketball player Sebastien Bellin credits sport with helping him survive a bomb attack
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The Legend of Takhti: Ep 3
Mon 2 Sep 2024
Following Takhti鈥檚 death, Tehran is on edge. From its depths, a legend is born
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The Legend of Takhti: Ep 2
Mon 26 Aug 2024
Gholamreza Takhti is dead. His death sends rumours spiralling through society
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The Legend of Takhti: Ep 1
Mon 19 Aug 2024
Gholamreza Takhti, Iran's most loved wrestler, tackles the world of fame and politics
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Trailer: The Legend of Takhti
Mon 12 Aug 2024
Exploring Iranian wrestling legend Gholamreza Takhti鈥檚 journey of life, death and legacy
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Breaking the Olympics
Mon 29 Jul 2024
Breakdancing's journey from the streets of New York to the Olympic stage
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The business of losing
Mon 22 Jul 2024
What's it like to play for a team whose only job is to lose? Meet the Washington Generals
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Around the world in 200 marathons
Mon 15 Jul 2024
Nick Butter spent nearly two years running a marathon in every country in the world
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Wimbledon: 'New balls, please'
Mon 8 Jul 2024
How working as ball boys at Wimbledon in the 1960s changed two young men's lives
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Copper Bullets: Ep 4
Mon 1 Jul 2024
One year after the crash, Zambia awaits the Africa Cup of Nations final
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Copper Bullets: Ep 3
Mon 24 Jun 2024
Can the newly formed Zambian football team honour the legacy of the KK11?
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Copper Bullets: Ep 2
Mon 17 Jun 2024
Relatives of Zambia鈥檚 fallen footballers cope with their loss as a new team is formed
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Copper Bullets: Ep 1
Mon 10 Jun 2024
The stars of Zambia's 1993 football team die in a plane crash. A dream is shattered
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Trailer: Copper Bullets
Mon 3 Jun 2024
A nation鈥檚 dreams were shattered when Zambia's football team was killed in a plane crash
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The woman in black
Mon 27 May 2024
Lea Campos took on one of football's most powerful men for the right to referee
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Fixing the Crazy Gang
Mon 20 May 2024
A young woman finds herself at the heart of one of English football's most infamous teams
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Poker's new deal
Mon 13 May 2024
How a card game went from smoky back rooms to the global sporting mainstream
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Chasing Mountains: Ep 4
Mon 6 May 2024
We have a winner 鈥� or so we think. Questions are being asked
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Chasing Mountains: Ep 3
Mon 29 Apr 2024
The mountaineers are climbing the final peaks, and three of them are neck-and-neck
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Chasing Mountains: Ep 2
Mon 22 Apr 2024
Then there were five. Two super-fast new challengers are powering up the peaks
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Chasing Mountains: Ep 1
Mon 15 Apr 2024
A near-death experience motivates a mountaineer to scale the world鈥檚 highest peaks
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Ghost story
Mon 1 Apr 2024
A runner defies the athletics authorities who tried to take him off the track
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Evaristo: Brazil鈥檚 unsung hero
Mon 25 Mar 2024
A Barcelona legend who holds a goalscoring record not even Pele matched
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Leon Edwards: Saved by sport
Mon 18 Mar 2024
How a UFC champion escaped a violent gang life to win MMA's biggest prize
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Special: Curses and superstitions
Mon 11 Mar 2024
This St Patrick鈥檚 Day, we ask what drives sports fans to believe in curses
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