The Olympic Champion Behind the Wire

Eric Liddell won gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics, a moment later immortalized in Chariots of Fire. But twenty years after that triumph, the world had forgotten its hero. Liddell was locked inside a Japanese internment camp in Weifang, China — 1,800 civilians crammed behind barbed wire, surviving on watery porridge and boiled vegetables. Inside those walls, no one cared about Olympic medals.…