Student recreates athletic challenge

[Alan Eardley]

A young Cambridge University student (19 year old Sam Dobin) has achieved the feat of running around the Great Court of Trinity College while the bell of the College clock strikes noon. This challenge is, of course, featured in the film Chariots of Fire (although the film set is at Eton!). Suprisingly, only two others have achieved this feat and they were Olympic medal winners (and the previous 'record' time is not official). Sam actually broke the record time, too!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/athletics/article2748773.ece

Alan

 

[Edward]

Interesting story. Oddly erough, when I saw your thread title, this was the first thing that came to mind. I see they don't Abrahams' failure to make it, though it is obviously implied for anyone who has seen Chariots. I do wish they had stuck with what really happened, but I can understand why they would have changed it for the film. Growing up religious, of course I've seen that film a thousand times, but I think it stands up to repeated rewatchings. Seeing it again on thelevision a few months ago, I found the only bit of it that really seems a little jarring at this distance is the score, which is very much not period - it is a strong score, though, and I think it doesn't matter so much.

On that recent watching I was also very impressed by a lot of the clothing - in particular, I was struck by the smoking jacket worn by the head official at Abraham's dinner with the Cambridge bigwigs.