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Sportswashing: have nations always used sport to launder their reputations? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1880, the Paris rugby team.
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When Vichy France banned rugby

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An illustration titled 'The first match of the British Ladies Football Club'
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A brief history of women’s football: from Mary, Queen of Scots to the FIFA Women’s World Cup . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Alice Marble in the 'Daily News' colour studio.
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Alice Marble The tennis champion with multiple lives

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Gussie Moran playing tennis with her lace knickers on show at the 1949 Wimbledon Championships.
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10 scandalous moments in Wimbledon’s history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, born the son of a humble yak farmer, pictured around the time of his Everest triumph of 1953 (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Tenzing Norgay The Sherpa who first conquered the world's highest mountain

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A photograph of Tenzing Norgay (left) and Edmund Hillary, sharing a smile in 1953, shortly after scaling Everest.
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Everest The story of the race to the top of the world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A 1577 portrait of Arbella Stuart, great- great-granddaughter of Henry VII, as a toddler clutching a doll
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What were the games and pastimes enjoyed by Tudor children? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kathrine Swizter.
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Kathrine Switzer The shocking image from Boston Marathon in 1967 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Rachel Hewitt WL
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How women were excluded from sport – and fought back . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Brits abroad: a history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How ballroom dancing gripped Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Football in the First World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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World Cup history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of the display cabinet where the World Cup was stolen
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What a pickle: how England lost, found and won the World Cup in a single year