Great Sporting Moments in Olympic History

Derek Redmond pulled up injured at the Barcelona Olympics, but still finished the race.

The journey of female marathoner Agueda Amaral from refugee to the Sydney Olympics.

In 1996, Nigeria became the first African team to take football gold at the Olympic Games

The Romanian recalls how in 1976 - at 14 - she achieved a perfect score for gymnastics

How the 'Lion of Himara' became a Greek hero by battling injury at the Athens Olympics

The Princess talks about being part of the British eventing team at the Montreal Olympics

The Japanese gymnast who won gold in 1976 despite competing with a broken knee

The American athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 games hosted by Nazi Germany

The Canadian rower who defied a horrific injury to win an Olympic medal in 1992

The American long-jumper on shattering the world record at the 1968 Mexico Olympics

Close finish - Gebrselassie beat his rival Paul Tergat of Kenya by less than a second

The Israeli race-walker who survived the Holocaust and the Munich Olympics shootings

How an Olympic water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union turned into a battle

The aboriginal runner who lit the Olympic cauldron and went on to win the 400m event

The American diver talks about the 1988 Seoul Olympics and mis-timing his dive

The dramatic marathon that turned an Italian sweet-maker from Capri into a celebrity

How the Algerian runner's success made her a political opponent for extremists

Her husband and coach Al Joyner recalls Flo-Jo's four medal wins at Seoul in 1988

Altitude sickness caused 10,000m race favourite to collapse at the finishing line in 1968

Funded partly by the US rock band the new independent nation beat the former Soviet Union