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A cyclist tries doping and stumbles into the Russian state programme; his source flees to LA.

Alex Honnold climbs El Capitan without a rope; you know he lives and it is still unbearable.

Eight hours on Simpson, race and Los Angeles; the documentary that won an Oscar as a film.

A palomino called Nautical goes from a New Mexico ranch to the Olympic show-jumping team.

Disney on the American plains, and the bison birth that got the film briefly banned in New York.

Two South Africans hunt for Rodriguez, a Detroit singer they think is dead.

A diver visits the same octopus every day for a year in a South African kelp forest.

Philippe Petit walks a wire between the Twin Towers in 1974, told as a heist.