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Greece made their Rugby League World Cup debut this week following years of turmoil in the sport, which saw the team effectively banned from playing matches in their home country. Journalist and Greece team manager Terry Liberopoulos describes his emotions as the side ran out to face France and explains how they managed to fool the authorities and escape the attentions of the Police in order to play Malta in 2018 on their way to qualifying for the tournament.

Adebayo Akinfenwa is swapping the football pitch for the wrestling ring. The forty year old was a cult figure as a footballer and used the catch phrase 鈥淏east Mode鈥�. He鈥檚 taking that into the ring with him, with plans for a 鈥淏east Barge鈥�, which is a wrestling move based on a shoulder barge in football.

The Women鈥檚 Indian Open golf is underway and providing many opportunities for golfers from the country. However, it hasn鈥檛 always been that way as Simi Mehra explains to the 主播大秀鈥檚 Giles Goford. Mehra was India鈥檚 first female professional golfer and she recalls moving to the USA in the nineties to play on the LPGA tour.

Jasmine Harrison tells us about her encounter with a Basking shark, swimming with dolphins and encountering a live military exercise as she became the first woman in the world to swim the full length of the UK from Land's End to John O'Groats.

In Sporting Witness we go back to 1972 when Llanelli rugby club - a semi-professional side made up steel workers, teachers and dockworkers in south Wales - took on the most decorated international side in rugby history 鈥� the All Blacks, and won.

And 鈥� the 主播大秀鈥檚 Juliette Ferrington joins us live from the City Ground as Nottingham Forest host Liverpool in Saturday鈥檚 early game in the Premier League.

Image: Peter Mamouzelos of Greece during Rugby League World Cup 2021 Pool A match between France and Greece at Keepmoat Stadium on October 17, 2022 in Doncaster, England. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images)