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The ultimate battle for supremacy! Some of the biggest names in athletics go head to head, featuring the sprinting legends Lewis v Bolt, plus pole vaulting champions Bubka v Isinbayeva, and Richards-Ross v Ohuruogu, all facing off in this episode of National Icons!

The ultimate battle for supremacy! Some of the biggest names in athletics go head to head, featuring American sprinters Gatlin v Gay, marathon runners Kiplagat v Radcliffe, and Australi-ans Freeman v Pearson, all facing off in this episode of National Icons!

The ultimate battle for supremacy! Some of the biggest names in athletics go head to head, featuring Jamaican sprinting sensations Powell v Blake, 400 metre men Merritt v James, and British multisport monsters Thompson v Ennis-Hill, all facing off in this episode of National Icons!

The Olympic stage is where legends are made. Who achieved this status? We look at Gabby Douglas v Tom Daley, Lionel Messi v Neymar and Mariana Pajon v Sarah Walker in this episode of National Icons.

The ultimate battle for supremacy! Some of the biggest names in athletics go head to head, featuring the kings of distance running Gebrselassie v Farah, plus speed queens Campbell-Brown v Felix, and shot put enemies Ostapchuk v Adams, all facing off in this episode of National Icons!

Two great champions of Kenya - David Rudisha and Ezekiel Kemboi match up in a dramatic Olympic showdown. US teenager Kate Ledecky shocked the swimming world in her very first Games. What happens when you pit the best badminton player in the world against the best table tennis champion in history against each and the sprint hurdles can be very unforgiving - its Liu Xiang vs Aries Merritt.

It's the ultimate Olympic icons showdown, the world's fastest man Usain Bolt against distance champion Mo Farah. We also track how two heroes from London's 2012 Games, long-jumper Greg Rutherford and rower Helen Glover, have kicked on while weighing into a judo showdown between Teddy Riner and Kayla Harrison.

The Olympic Games is sport's ultimate stage and two of the golf's young guns - Jordan Spieth and Lydia Ko - are teeing up for Olympic gold. The athletics world experienced two shocks at the 2015 World Championships, but can Dafne Schippers and Wayde van Niekerk repeat the dose. Spain has been a men's basketball silver medallist to the USA but they are closing the gap.

Two of track and field's biggest stars clash in this Olympic icons episode with Valerie Adams taking on Yelena Isinbayeva while beach volleyball stars Emanuel Rego and Kerri Walsh Jennings also go head-to-head. Plus we track the progress of triathletes Gwen Jorgensen and Javier Gomez in their pursuit for Olympic glory.

There's no better place to have a career breakthrough than on the Olympic stage. It's where legends are made and we look at those who have lifted when it mattered like Andy Murray's gold medal victory at London 2012. He goes up against fellow Brit, rower Katherine Grainger, while China's pool heroes, Sun Yang and Chen Ruolin face off, as do one-lap wonders Allyson Felix and Kirani James.

Two of the track world's greatest go head to head in a battle of 200m-400m dominance The double agent life of Qatar's Nasser Al-Attiya - rally superstar and Olympic skeet shooting medallist. American Missy Franklin and South African Chad Le Clos were the surprise packets of the pool at London 2012, what have they done since? Plus two Tour de France winners and their quest for Olympic gold.

Two great pole vault champions and Olympic gold medallists - Steve Hooker and Renaud Lavillenie - go head to head. We look at a select group of summer and winter Olympic medallists. Winning gold in home Olympics can be a tough challenge, but it didn't faze Nicola Adams and Alistair Brownlee and two five-time Olympians - American swimmer Dana Torres and British sailor Ben Ainslie, go at it.