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Eric Liddell's 400 metres win, 1924
When I was a boy we spent every May Day bank holiday driving into the depths of East Anglia to a preaching rally (which, to an 11 year old boy was about as exciting as it sounds).
Every year I was allowed to choose a book from the bookstall and one year I chose one with the picture of a runner on the front. It turned out to be about a Scottish Christian and athlete called Eric Liddell and he became something of a hero to me. This account in The Guardian of his win and subsequent life story brought it all back.
