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How the batsman sparked a row leading to the sporting isolation of apartheid South Africa
How the first games for athletes with intellectual disabilities was organised in 1968
Funded partly by the US rock band the new independent nation beat the former Soviet Union
How the most extreme form of triathlon was invented in Hawaii in 1978
In 1979, a freak storm hit a prestigious ocean race in the Irish Sea, killing 18 people.
The remarkable life-story of the first Indian runner to win a Commonwealth Games gold.
The last time the Commonwealth Games were in Scotland many African nations boycotted them
In 1975, the great Tour de rider lost the race after being punched by a spectator
How Hungary's footballers hammered mighty England 6-3 at Wembley in 1953.
How Argentina won its first World Cup when hosting the tournament under military rule.
