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British 400m runner Christine Ohuruogu won the 2008 Olympic title in Beijing. Four years later in London she won silver. Add to that two world titles, the 2006 Commonwealth title and numerous relay medals and it all adds up to a very impressive career. This year Christine is looking forward to adding to her Olympic tally when she competes in the Summer Games in Rio. We talk to her about her career, hopes for the Games in Rio and her faith. And we continue our series through the Games of the modern Olympic era as we look back on the highlights and drama of the 1988 Games in Seoul.

Following the death of sporting icon and former world heavyweight boxing champion, Muhammad Ali, last week, athletes at last weekend's Diamond League Athletics meeting in Birmingham pay their tributes. We hear from Mo Farah, Greg Rutherford, Christian Taylor and Asbel Kiprop. And Olympic 400 metres champion Kirani James from Grenada tells us about his hopes for defending his title this summer in Rio.

We look back at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, boycotted by 65 nations following the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We hear from Great Britain 50 km race walker Ian Richards. He tells us why he decided to compete when many other athletes chose to stay away and he recalls his race experience on a hot day in Moscow. He also talks about the support he received from his faith as a follower of Jesus Christ after the sudden death of his wife.

We're joined by professional racing driver instructor and Formula Ford racing champion, Adriano Medeiros, to discuss the unfolding drama in this season's Formula 1 Championship. We review 18-year-old driver Max Verstappen's brilliant win at the Spanish Grand Prix and consider whether Ferrari or Red Bull can overcome the dominance of Mercedes. And with the Olympic Games in Rio now just ten weeks away our journey through the Games of the modern Olympic era reaches the 1976 Games in Montreal.

Our Chief Football Correspondent Stuart Weir joins us to look back on a remarkable English Premier League season as Leicester City win the title by a margin of ten points. Stuart also selects two strikers who have made an impression on him this season, Manchester City's 19-year-old Nigerian Kelechi Iheanacho and Sunderland's veteran 33-year-old former England international, Jermain Defoe. And as our series through the Games of the modern Olympic era continues as we reach the 1972 Games in Munich and hear about from silver medallist in the women's 4-by-400 metres relay, Madeline Manning-Mimms.

Our journey through the Games of the modern Olympic era reaches 1968 when the host city was Mexico City. We hear from two Olympic champions at those Games. First, American high jumper, Dick Fosbury whose new style of jumping with the Fosbury Flop helped him to the gold medal and went on to revolutionise the sport. And we hear from the winner of the women's 800 metres, Madeline Manning Mimms, who had to overcome racial prejudice from her fellow Americans before becoming the first American black woman to win Olympic gold in track and field athletics.

As Juventus win the Serie A title for the 32nd time in their history we hear from one of the former players, central defender, Nicola Legrottaglie, who played for the club between 2003 and 2011. He talks about his first international match for Italy against Turkey in 2002 and his journey to faith as a follower of Jesus Christ. And we continue our series exploring the history of the modern Olympic Games as we come to the 1964 Games in Tokyo and hear from Australian swimmer, Dawn Fraser, who won her third successive Olympic title there.

This week we meet three of the athletes who took part in last Sunday's London Marathon. Tatyana McFadden from the USA won the women's wheelchair race for the fourth successive year. She talks about the challenges she has faced and overcome to become the world's leading female wheelchair racer. South African Ernst Van Dyk came fourth in the men's wheelchair event. He tells us why, as a ten-times Boston marathon winner, why he finds the London course challenging and the difference that his faith makes to his life. Wilson Kipsang from Kenya came 5th in the elite men's race and he also talks about the role of faith in his life. And we continue our journey through the Games of the modern Olympic era as we reach the 1960 Olympics in Rome.

With the FA Cup semi-finals coming up this weekend we talk to a past FA Cup winner, Cyril Regis, who helped Coventry City win the trophy in 1987. He talks about his experience of racism in football and why his faith as follower of Jesus Christ is more important than his FA Cup winners' medal. Our series on the history of the modern Olympic era reaches 1956 when the Games were held in Melbourne. We talk to two of the athletes from those Games, Irish sprinter Maeve Kyle and British high jumper, Dorothy Tyler.

In 2008 Nick Willis won silver in the 1500m at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Two years earlier he won the Commonwealth title in Melbourne and last month he picked up bronze at the World Indoor Championships in Portland, USA. Earlier this year he announced through his Facebook pages that with the help of his wife, family and friends he'd beaten an addiction to pornography that had gripped him until 2 years ago. In an interview recorded in 2011 he talks to us about his career and faith as a follower of Jesus Christ. And continuing our journey through the Games of the modern Olympic era we look back on the 1952 Games in Helsinki.

Our journey through the Olympics of the modern era brings us to the 1948 Games in London. Organised just three years after the end of the Second World War it became known as the Austerity Games due to the economic climate and post-war rationing. A record number of 59 nations took part but not Germany or Russia. Many athletes were housed in military barracks rather than a comfortable Olympic Village. British rower Michael Lapage, who later became a Christian missionary, recalls his experience at the Games when he won silver in the men's Eights and we hear again from Dorothy Tyler who won her second Olympic silver medal in the women's high jump, adding to the medal she won 12 years earlier in Berlin.

We continue our journey through the Games of the modern Olympic era as we come to the 1936 Games in Berlin. These were the Games where Hitler wanted to show the supremacy of white athletes but a humble black American called Jesse Owens stole the show with four gold medals. And we talk to Dorothy Tyler who won silver in the women's high jump at the 1936 Games. In an interview recorded in 2011 when she was 91 she recalls the Opening Ceremony, her silver medal winning performance and her meeting with Jesse Owens.

We hear from four athletes who competed in last weekend's World Indoor Athletics Championships in Portland, USA as they talk about their sport and faith as committed followers of Jesus Christ. They are gold medallists Trayvon Bromell (USA) in the men's 60 metres and Michelle Carter (USA) in the women's shot put along with New Zealand's Nick Willis who won bronze in the men's 1500 metres and another 1500 metres runner, Kenya's Bethwel Birgen. And we continue our series looking back at the history of the modern era of the Olympic Games as we come to the 1932 Games that were held in Los Angeles.

Ahead of the Olympic Games in Rio we visit a project in the city that uses futsal to offer hope and a safe environment to young people living in what can sometimes be violent communities. We hear from South Africa's 400 metres World Champion Wayde van Niekerk who last week completed a remarkable treble of running the 100 metres in under 10 seconds, the 200m in under 20 seconds and the 400m in under 44 seconds. And we continue our series on the Games of the modern Olympic era as we revisit the 1928 Games in Amsterdam.

This week we talk to one of the new track and field athletics sprint sensations, Trayvon Bromell. Last year the 20-year-old ran 100 metres in 9.84 seconds in the heats of the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships making him the 10th fastest man in history. Two months later he won bronze behind Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin at the World Championships in Beijing. In an interview recorded last month in Glasgow he talks to us about his meteoric rise, his family, his training, his hopes for the Olympics in Rio and the bedrock of his faith as a follower of Jesus Christ. We also continue our series through the Games of the modern Olympic movement as we reach the 1924 Games in Paris.

We're back at the Indoor Athletics Grand Prix in Glasgow on 20 February to talk to athletes preparing for this summer's Olympic Games in Rio. We hear from World 200m champion Dafne Schippers from the Netherlands and London 2012 bronze medallist in the men's 800m Timothy Kitum from Kenya. We also talk to Germany's 2012 Paralympic champion in the men's F44 long jump, Markus Rehm, who's set his sights on competing in the Olympics in Rio as well as the Paralympics. And we go back in time almost 100 years to find out about the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.

This week we're at the International Indoor Athletics Grand Prix in Glasgow. We hear from Kenya's 2004 Olympic 3000m steeplechase bronze medallist Paul Kipsiele Koech on the drugs-testing crisis in Kenyan athletics and allegations of corruption that could see Kenya banned from the Rio Olympics. We also hear from South African sprinter Carina Horn on her Olympic hopes and USA hurdler Kevin Craddock about his ambitions for Rio and the importance of his faith. And we continue our series through the Games of the modern Olympic era as we find out about the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.

We conclude our interview with British athlete Stephanie Cook who won gold at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney in the women's modern pentathlon. She tells us about the final three of the five disciplines in which she competed in one day and her joy at crossing the line first in the final event, the 3 kilometre run, be crowned champion. And continuing our series exploring the Games of the modern Olympic era we come to the 1908 Games in London and find out about the race that never was in the final of the men's 400 metres.

Olympic champion Stephanie Cook continues her story about how she won the women's modern pentathlon at the 2000 Games in Sydney. We find out how cheating in sport is nothing new as we go back to the 1904 Olympics in St Louis and we conclude our tour around the Olympic Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro as Christiane Paquelet, Cultural Director of the Brazil Olympic Committee, tells us about the unique Rio 2016 3-dimensional logo.

Sydney 2000 gold medallist in the women's modern pentathlon, Stephanie Cook, tells us how she got into the sport and her journey to faith as a follower of Jesus Christ. We find out about Olympic memorabilia as we continue our tour around the Olympic Exhibition in Rio and we hear about the unknown young boy who held the Dutch rowing team to victory at the 1900 Games in Paris.