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[edit] Edit

Sorry, I didn't notice the notice saying not to edit until after I had edited.

But this is a temporary fix, and if the original turns out to be okay, it can replace my stub, with my blessing. Deb 19:59, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Race day

Liddell was a committed Christian and he refused to race on Sunday, with the consequence that he was forced to withdraw from the Men's 100 metres, his best event.

The race took place on July 7 1924, which I make out to be a Monday - what am I missing? Drutt 19:13, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

It was the heat he refused to run, therefore eliminating him from the final. Per the NBC piece done on him. Blackngold29 19:15, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Where did you get this information from? All sources I have checked unanimously state the race was held on a Sunday:

http://new.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12909 http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0019/print.shtml http://www.calebresources.org/PDF_files/narrativesample.pdf

Je1985 (talk) 14:58, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

No, the previous poster is correct. The contest was held over two days, with the first round on a Sunday and the final race on a Monday. See Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres. Drutt (talk) 15:57, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Eric Liddell - grave site

There seems to be some confusion about the site of Eric Liddell's grave. The graveyard where we buried him in the former Weihsien concentration camp is now covered by a block of shops. The memorial stone is now at the front of the hospital where he died.

There is a reference to his being interred/re-interred in the 'Mausoleum of the Martyrs' in Shijiazhuang in neighbouring Hebei Province. What is the original source of this information? This would be a Chinese memorial place. Who would have motivated this in those years of civil war?

The missionaries went back to China or stayed there after the war from 1945 to about 1951, so there was an opportunity for a re-interment. I was asked years ago whether he had been re-interred in Tianjin, but I had heard nothing of it. If that were the case, it would either be in the LMS graveyard, if they had one attached to their hospital or headquarters, or in the foreigners' cemetary.

Does anybody know?? EM Horne (talk) 13:49, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese language

Does anyone have a source saying specifically whether Liddell spoke Chinese? I would assume that he did, given he lived there so long, but who knows—there have always been English bubbles there for mercenaries and expats, so I shouldn't assume too much. Anyway, I was just wondering because I was thinking of adding him to the silly list Chinese as a second language#Notable non-native speakers of Chinese. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 15:53, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Additional Pictures?

The two current pictures are great, however, because this man was an Olympic Gold-Medalist you'd think that there would be more pictures of him available for Wikipedia; I think another photo or two could add a great deal to this article. Invmog (talk) 02:39, 9 September 2009 (UTC)