Telegraph | News | Chariots of Fire hero honoured in homeland - China

From August 18, 2005, by reporter Richard Spencer, the amazing story of a Chinese tribute to a man many of us learned about from a movie, the Scotsman Eric Liddell.

Earlier this month, to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the internment camp where he died, Chinese officials participated in laying a wreath at his grave. Spencer also provides the story of what happened to Liddell after the 1924 Olympics - where he became famous for not running his best distance because the heats were on a Sunday. (As Spencer explains, Liddell later moderated his views about sports on Sunday, when he began working with teens who were getting into trouble when they didn't think they had enough to do.)

Another nice thing about the Chinese ceremony? Fireworks exploded into parachutes, representing the American servicemen who jumped from a B24 to liberate the camp on August 17, 1945. Thank you, city of Weifang, China, for honoring some of my countrymen like that.