Amazing Sport Stories Podcast
1) Bill Walton’s The Grateful Team: Ep 3
The final showdown. The only thing which stands between Lithuania and an Olympic medal? The Unified Team – the team representing former Soviet countries and, for Lithuanians, their former occupiers. W...Show More
2) Bill Walton’s The Grateful Team: Ep 2
The Lithuanian men’s basketball team are making a splash at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. But they’re about to face two of their biggest challenges…The Unified Team is made up of athletes representing ...Show More
3) Bill Walton’s The Grateful Team: Ep 1
Bill Walton tells the story of Sarunas Marciulionis’ journey from the USSR to the NBA. Along the way, there’s also a Grateful Dead concert…It’s Moscow, 1989, and Lithuanian basketball star Sarunas Mar...Show More
4) Trailer: Bill Walton’s The Grateful Team
Basketball, the Cold War, and rock band The Grateful Dead collide in this incredible true story. Presented by the late NBA star Bill Walton. Coming soon on 19 May.What do basketball, rock music, and t...Show More
5) Claressa Shields: Battles beyond boxing
Claressa Shields is a legend of boxing. By the time she turned 25, she had won two Olympic gold medals, and claimed professional world titles in three separate weight divisions. But her glory came aft...Show More
6) Tackles and tailenders
In 2003, Namibia's Rudie van Vuuren became the first - and, to date, only - man to have played at both the cricket and rugby World Cups. His feat was made all the more impressive by the fact that he w...Show More
7) Just win the day
On 22 March 2016, a bomb attack killed 16 people at Brussels Airport. Basketball player Sebastien Bellin was one of the survivors. He says sport, and a meal he ate the night before, helped save his li...Show More
8) The Legend of Takhti: Ep 3
Following the unexpected and shocking death of heroic wrestler Gholamreza Takhti, Tehran is a tinderbox. Hundreds of thousands of people gather in the streets as tensions and rumours rise to a pitch. ...Show More
9) The Legend of Takhti: Ep 2
Heroic wrestler Gholamreza Takhti is dead. Rana Rahimpour goes back to that terrible night in January 1968, hearing from perhaps the last person to see him alive. We speak to his teammate Abdollah Mov...Show More
10) The Legend of Takhti: Ep 1
Gholamreza Takhti is a hero. In Iran, a nation full of wrestlers and wrestling fans, he’s the most beloved wrestler of them all. But unexpectedly, tragically, the great champion is found dead in a hot...Show More