Amazing Sport Stories

Ireland’s “cursed” Gaelic football team – our next amazing sport story. Can County Mayo’s failure to win the All-Ireland Championship really be the result of a curse put on the team more than 70 years...

27 Nov 20232min

At 200 miles, it might not be the world's longest race, but Tunnel Ultra is certainly the darkest. It's a gruelling two-day endurance event where competitors run underground laps in single-file, to a ...

20 Nov 202314min

Sport but not as you know it. Forget the champions. This is about underdogs, myths, drama. Global stories you’ll wish you’d known about and now probably won’t forget. There are other podcasts about go...

13 Nov 202318min

Sport but not as you know it. Forget the champions. This is about underdogs, myths, drama. Global stories you’ll wish you’d known about and now probably won’t forget. There are other podcasts about go...

6 Nov 202316min

In the premiere season of the BBC World Service’s ‘Amazing Sports Stories’, Cassie Campbell-Pascal (Canadian Olympic gold medalist) re-visits the story of 12-year-old Justine Blainey and her fight to ...

30 Okt 202334min

“Yes you’re good enough, We wish we could take you. But you’re a girl.” Schoolgirl Justine’s fight for the right to play in a boys’ ice hockey team. She’s a talented player who wants to get to the to...

23 Okt 20232min

Sport but not as you know it. Imagine being stranded in the “death zone” on one of the world’s highest mountains. How about running 200 miles in a dark tunnel? We’ve been searching the world for the m...

10 Okt 20233min