"Chariots" hero Eric Liddell wins top honour in China ONE OF Scotland's greatest Olympians is to be honoured in China, where he carried out missionary work. Eric Liddell, whose story was told in the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, is to be given pride of place in a new museum planned by the city where he died. Liddell, a devout Christian, famously decided not to run in the 100 metres, his main event, at the 1924 Paris Olympics, because the heats were to be held on a Sunday. Instead, he competed in the 400 metres and won gold against all odds. He then dedicated the rest of his life to teaching and preaching in China, and died in a Japanese internment in the city of Weifang during the Second World War, at age 43. The internment camp is now a school, but a small museum and a memorial stone in Isle of Mull granite tell - in Chinese and English - Liddell's story, near where he was buried in the camp grounds. Now the city is planning a much larger museum, with a room dedicated to the Scot. The building where he died will be converted into the new museum, with a reconstruction of Liddell's prison room and a waxwork of him inside. Zhao Guixia, headmistress at the school, said every new child was taught about Liddell's achievements. She said: "This part of history is a great treasure for all our school. We can see the great value of humanity, especially in Eric Liddell's stories.