The Runner Who Finished on a Different Track

Eric Liddell won Olympic gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Games — a moment immortalized in Chariots of Fire. But Liddell's greatest race had nothing to do with a stadium. Within a year of his Olympic triumph, Liddell left Scotland for China as a missionary. For nearly twenty years, he taught, preached, and served in increasingly dangerous conditions.…