![]() ![]() In the face of strong opposition from his college head to this 'ungentle-manly' professionalism, he continues to train with Sam, while Liddell runs cross-country over the moors. A trainer, Sam Mussabini, who had earlier rejected Abrahams' request for guidance, now offers to improve his time. Liddell wins, and Abrahams takes the defeat so badly that his girlfriend, operetta star Sybil Gordon, worries that she is losing him to his obsession for running. He participates in the Highland Games and is encouraged to think seriously about running by friend Sandy McGrath, an idea opposed by his sister Jennie for fear he will neglect mission work.īoth Abrahams and Liddell rise to some prominence and finally meet on the race track. In Scotland, Eric Liddell, son of missionary parents in China, is studying and helping his sister to run a local mission. Harold Abrahams, son of a Lithuanian Jew, is subject to subtle prejudice at Caius College, Cambridge, where he is the star sprinter among the amateur runners, including friends Lord Andrew Lindsay, Aubrey Montague and Henry Stallard. ![]()
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