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He gave up his successful career as an aspiring athlete to become a missionary to China, he refused to race in the Olympics on a Sunday (the Sabbath), and ultimately put God above all else in his life. He died of an inoperable brain tumor in a Chinese internment camp.

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Eric Liddell won the men's 400 meters at the 1924 summer Olympics in Paris, France. He was in the film Charlots of Fire.

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for running over a train

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