BACK IN THE GAME

Don, an American reporter, goes through the Vietnam War and the end of Apartheid with his baseball glove. Lamine Gueye is the first black African to compete in the 1984 Olympic skiing competition, and Debra Austin the first African-American dancer to join a major ballet company. Herve Dubuisson is one of the first Frenchmen to play on major international basketball teams, but faces a serious accident that ends his career. And Melvin McNair gives up his position with a major American soccer team to defend his rights with the Black Panthers…

These portraits will carry stories as different as they are incredible, taking us back half a century. We will relive how the sport influenced their lives and sometimes how they influenced their sport… and their times.