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How Wayde van Niekerk broke the men's 400m world record at the 2016 Olympic Games - one held by a true athletics legend.

Omar started to cook after doctors told him to use his muscles to help with his neuromuscular myopathy.

Teenage Kenyan tennis star Angella Okutoyi says delaying the 2022 Youth Olympics for four years is set to hit her career development.

When Mohamed was caught with his boyfriend he had to flee Somaliland, where homosexuality is illegal.

Soumaila Cissé was kidnapped days before Mali's disputed elections which led to deadly protests.