We were sitting in a corner cafe in Rathmines on Thursday evening and David Puttnam was telling me why he thinks Chariots of Fire still holds up so magnificently more than four decades after its first theatrical release, in May 1981. And with that he soon gets to the core of why some Olympic stories will never grow old. It also happened to be exactly 100 years to the day since one of his film’s central characters, Eric Liddell, won the 400m at those Paris Olympics – on July 11th, 1924 – after refusing to run the 100m, his speciality,...
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