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Why are there three lions on the shirts of the English football team?
20th Century
Fred Perry: the icon and the outcast
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What were the ancient Olympics like? Take a visit to the Games of 436 BC
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Dan Walker chooses Eric Liddell (1902–45)
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Have the Olympic Games ever been cancelled?
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5 facts about the history of football
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16 things you (probably) didn’t know about St David’s Day traditions
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The history of rugby: when was the sport invented?
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Did the First World War Christmas truce football match really happen?
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The ‘Black Terror’: the story of Britain’s first black sports star
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Gertrude Ederle: the first woman to swim the English Channel
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