Pause, rewind, play: Milkha Singh’s iconic sprint at the Rome Olympics

Singh is a four-time Asian Games gold medallist and the 1958 Commonwealth Games champion, but his greatest performance came at the grandest stage.

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· Jun 19, 2021 · 12:54 pm

Pause, rewind, play: The beginning of the legendary Nadal-Djokovic rivalry

In 2006, second seed Nadal was the defending champion and Djokovic, world number one now, was a brash 19-year-old ranked at 63.

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· Jun 10, 2021 · 09:00 pm

Pause, rewind, play: The scarcely believable Gordon Banks save from Pele’s header at 1970 World Cup

In a photograph that captures the moment, one can see Pele already starting to celebrate but England’s Banks pulled off a stunning moment.

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· Jun 07, 2021 · 05:45 pm

Pause, rewind, play: When Spain mastered tiki-taka football to unleash an era of global dominance

La Roja won back-to-back European Championships that sandwiched a World Cup triumph but their greatness was also down to the unique brand of football they used.

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· Jun 06, 2021 · 06:16 pm

Pause, rewind, play: Justine Henin’s French Open dominance, from controversy to greatness

The Belgian, famous for her formidable one-handed backhand, won Roland Garros four times, including a hat-trick of titles from 2005.

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· May 27, 2021 · 10:12 am

Pause, rewind, play: Ivan Lendl, the man who dragged men’s tennis into the modern age

Lendl lost six of his first seven Grand Slam finals, McEnroe looked down on him but then things changed and how.

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· May 26, 2021 · 02:30 pm

Pause, rewind, play: When 17-year-old Michael Chang stunned Lendl and Edberg to win French Open

Chang became the youngest male Grand Slam champion in history.

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· May 23, 2021 · 02:30 pm

Pause, rewind, play: How Thomas Muster went from training on fractured leg to dominating clay courts

The Austrian became world No 1 in 1996, a year after his stunning streak on clay which saw him win his only Grand Slam at the French Open.

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· May 21, 2021 · 04:19 pm

Pause, rewind, play: When Chelsea won their first Champions League title in 2012, against all odds

The Blues beat Bayern Munich in their own backyard on penalties in the nail-biting final to seal a remarkable triumph after a dramatic campaign.

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· May 19, 2021 · 02:45 pm

Pause, rewind, play: Czechoslovakia’s unlikely win at Euro 1976 and the birth of the Panenka penalty

Antonin Panenka’s audacious technique to score winning penalty in the final against West Germany became immortal in footballing folklore.

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· May 17, 2021 · 04:30 pm

Pause, rewind, play: The great Steffi Graf forehand

The forehand is the first thing that stood out about her game and the last thing we still remember.

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· May 16, 2021 · 09:30 am

Pause, rewind, play: Marco van Basten, Euro 1988, and the greatest moment in Dutch football history

A fairytale run that saw the Dutch lift their first and only major international trophy.

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· May 13, 2021 · 12:30 pm