The Olympian Who Ran to a Different Refuge

Eric Liddell won Olympic gold in Paris in 1924, his story later immortalized in Chariots of Fire. But the race that most revealed his faith wasn't run on any track. By 1943, Liddell was imprisoned in the Weihsien internment camp in Japanese-occupied China, where he had been serving as a missionary. The compound was cramped and filthy — 1,500 people crammed behind barbed wire with dwindling rations.…