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Sportshour: Living With Surviving

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Living With Surviving

03/12/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Sportshour, Living With Surviving

Gil Stork survivor of the 1960 plane crash that claimed the lives of 16 of his team mates

Gil Stork, survivor of the 1960 Cal Poly American football plane crash that claimed the lives of 22 people including 16 of his team mates

In 1960 the plane carrying the Cal Poly American football team crashed on take-off. It claimed the lives of 22 people, including 16 players. Gil Stork was a member of the team and on board that night. He survived those terrible events and tells of a terrifying night, the life long aftermath and how to deal with the feeling of guilt for surviving.

Women’s Afcon
We’re in Yaoundé ahead of the Women’s AFCON final. According to FIFA’s Isha Johansen the game of football is helping educate and protect children against child marriage in Cameroon and across Africa. 

America Kabaddi Champions!? (We’re not holding our breath)
Rap performer David Richey recently swapped spitting lyrics for repeating the same word over and over again, all in the name of sport.  The musician used what he's learnt on stage to enhance his sporting achievements. His sport is Kabaddi and David competed for America at the recent world cup. 

Indian Tee Time
Golf is largely a rich man's sport and most of India's population live in villages in the rural part of the country and have little access to sporting facilities. Including 12 year old Shubham Jaglan, but that's not stopped him becoming the rising star of Indian golf. We’ve been to meet him

Rocky Road
It's forty years ago, a movie came out which was phenomenally successful. It won the world's most important film award: Best Picture, at the Academy Awards, beating fellow nominees Taxi Driver, All The President's Men and Network. The winning film not only won an oscar but had a long lasting effect on the sport it portrayed.

Photo: The last photo of the Cal Poly American football team taken before a crash claimed 22 lives, including 16 players. Courtesy of Cal Poly Public Affairs

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