Badass Week: The Heroic Death of Chariots of Fire's Eric Liddell

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Imagine you dedicated your adult life to helping those less fortunate than yourself -that you spent your entire adult life trying to make the world a better place, and when you died (after sacrificing your own life for someone else’s) all most people remembered about you was that you once ran really fast… You’d be pretty annoyed right? Well that’s what happened to Eric Liddell. Although, as you’ll see, he probably wouldn’t have minded.

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Sources:

http://www.historymakers.info/inspirational-christians/eric-liddell.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18856533
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0019/print.shtml
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/jan/04/50-stunning-olympic-moments-eric-liddell
http://www.ericliddell.org/ericliddell/1924-olympics
http://www.prayforchina.com/Pro_0708_e.html
http://www.ericliddell.org/ericliddell/recollections-by-people-who-knew-him/dr-kenneth-mcall
http://www.prayforchina.com/Pro_0708_e.html

Image Credit:

https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-213047623/stock-photo-cropped-shot-of-young-volunteers-group-packing-food-and-drinks-for-charity
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-203988400/stock-photo-please-donate-help-need-charity-donation-concept
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-209387347/stock-photo-true-story-word-abstract-in-vintage-letterpress-wood-type
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eric_Liddell.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finale_du_400_m%C3%A8tres_aux_JO_de_1924,_Eric_Liddell_l%27emporte_devant_Horatio_Fitch.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Eric_Liddell#/media/File:Eric_Liddell_aux_JO_de_1924_(vainqueur_du_400_m%C3%A8tres).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winston_Churchill_during_the_General_Election_Campaign_in_1945_HU55965.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eric_Liddell_%26_Florence_Mackenzie_wedding.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eric_Liddel_Memorial_Plaque,_Edinburgh_University.jpg

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