The Olympic Champion in the Prison Camp

Eric Liddell won Olympic gold in Paris in 1924, his story later immortalized in Chariots of Fire. But his greatest race was run behind barbed wire. In 1943, the Japanese military interned Liddell in the Weihsien civilian camp in occupied China, where he had served as a missionary for nearly two decades. He could have been bitter. He could have spent his days counting the hours until liberation.…