Eric Lidell 5' 8" 100 yards 9.7 seconds. Usain Bolt 6ft 5 inches 100 yards time 9.14. Considering the circumstances, training and shoes worn, Lidell is the fastest human.
The film made his decision about not running on the Sabbath very dramatic but the decision was made long before Liddell's departure for Paris. A great man! I almost cried when reading the postscript at the end of the film about his death in captivity not long before the end of WW II. We need many more like Liddell to have any chance of redeeming this world.
Eric Liddell was born in CHINA! He was, and always will be, the first ever Olympic champion from CHINA. A bit of irony there for all of us Christians....
Liddell had no fear of losing. He ran the race the way he believed God would want him to run it. This courage and determination to be the best in spite of tough competition is what makes any runner like Liddell almost unbeat-able.
The biblical sabbath Eric Liddell referred to in the movie was and still is the seventh day Sabbath, Saturday, not Sunday as you said in this video. Sunday is the first day of the week when Jesus Christ raised from the death.
One of the greatest Scots ever, a man of love & humanity that loved the Lord. We Scots & other nationalities who know of Eric's life understand what a wonderful human being he was. 💙🏴❤️
@@paulthesurfer7470 to Scottish parents makes him Scottish in my book. He also played rugby at International level for Scotland and ran for Scotland as well. His life story is an extraordinary read. An amazing human being who sacrificed himself for the safety of others.
@@frankschlanker He sacrificed nothing, Goose. He was the first Chinese Olympian. The fact that some bible thumping yank wants to use him to make a point still does not change the fact that he was born on Chinese soil. Who cares about what the Scottish think - he was born there and returned to die there. He saved a few lives, like a few hundred other Olympians over the last century.
A man will always have support.... he's support was a man called Abrahams, played by the actor Ben Cross, together always to the finish line.... The Cross Carried him ❤
The producer of the film as you say was not a believer but said he wanted to make the movie because he was intrigued by the spiritual aspect of the film portraying a Jew, Howard Abrahams, who was a driven man because of alll the antisemitism that was against him. Whereas Liddell ran for God,s glory. Very moving and annointed film I believe.
In 1920 when British colonised half of the world and never allowed competition from Africa. How can you idiots consider him as fastest man during 1920's
@@weirdcaps7594 Disgusting comment. Eric Liddell believed in the brotherhood of all men regardless of race, class, and colour. You should try it. Read Eric Liddell's inspiring creed in his book on Discipleship. Jesus would never tell someone to "go back to their tree."
With all due respect, I disagree with your comment and do not believe it accurately reflects the history of the Olympic Games. The Americans dominated the 1924 Olympics and produced significantly more Olympic athletes than any other country in the world. Britain only had a small number of athletes in comparison, and Britain had no say in excluding countries from the 1924 Olympics. That said, several of the countries that were colonized by Britain had athletes of African descent who were allowed to compete in the Olympics, and in fact, did compete in the Olympics. For example, Harry Edward was a black athlete from British Guyana, who represented Great Britain at the Olympics in 1920 and won a bronze medal in the 100 m and the 200 m. He was the first British black athlete to medal in the Olympic Games. And guess who beat Harry Edward two years later? That's right: Eric Liddell! There is a picture of Eric Liddell finishing far ahead of the legendary Harry Edward in a race. Therefore, you cannot say that Eric Liddell did not beat some of the best athletes of African descent in the world. He absolutely did, and he was one of the fastest men in the world at the time even when taking into consideration that some world class black athletes did not compete in the Olympics. Nobody beat Eric Liddell's 400 meter time until the 1930s, and many black athletes were competing within that time frame. Archie Williams became the first black athlete to win the Olympic gold in the 400 meters in the 1936 Olympics and that year was the first year he had ever broken 47 seconds for the 400 meters. Eric Liddell had a short track career by choice. He only ran for 4 years total and in 1 Olympic Games, even though he was still running world class times years later without much additional training. He chose humanitarian work over world class athletic competition. Who's to say that if Eric Liddell would have continued training and competing over the next 10 years like most world class athletes, that he wouldn't have broken 47 seconds in the 400 meters? My only point is that your comment is pretty inaccurate and also unfair to Eric Liddell as an athlete.
Just finished reading “For The Glory” the biography of Eric Liddell. A great book which I highly recommend. However, and I maybe wrong on this, I don’t recall him giving his life for a pregnant woman. As I remember he suffered multiple stokes caused by brain tumors.
