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The genius of Liddell is recognised at last

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BRENDAN GALLAGHER

THIS column has long argued there should be more acknowledgement of Eric Liddell, the rugby player, to sit alongside the world-famous Olympic athlete who wouldn’t run on Sundays but ended up nonetheless winning the Olympic 400m title at the 1924 Olympics in Paris.
So a hat tip to the SRU who welcomed the New Year by inaugurating Liddell in their Hall of Fame, January 2 being the 100th anniversary of Liddell's Scotland rugby debut. In their citation the SRU rightly emphasised his sporting ethos generally w...

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