Chariots of Fire Page #3

[CROWD CHEERING]

Go on. Go on, Harold!

[CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE]

[CROWD CHEERING]

MASTER OF CAIUS:
Did they both do it?

- I think not.

- Young Lindsay failed by a whisker.

- Pity.

MASTER OF TRINITY: Well, it's been done,

and by a Caius man.

You must be very proud.

The first man in seven centuries.

Perhaps they really are

God's chosen people after all.

[MASTER OF CAIUS LAUGHS]

MASTER OF CAIUS:
I doubt

if there's a swifter man in the kingdom.

ERIC:

Get to your marks.

Get set.

[PISTOL FIRES]

MAN 1:

Go on, Angus, run.

MAN 2:

Sprint, Johnny, sprint.

MAN 3:

Oh, run, Steve!

MAN 4:

Come on, faster.

[CROWD CHEERING]

[CROWD APPLAUDING]

Oh...

[CHILDREN CLAMORING]

JENNIE:
He may be your best friend,

Sandy, but he's my best brother.

I'm thinking of him

and not your blessed athletics team.

His heart's set on following

Father in the mission.

Do you not think he's got enough

on his plate without racing?

He's fast, Jennie, really fast.

You've seen him with a ball in his hands.

And I've seen him

with a Bible in his hands.

I know which is the most important.

You can't deny him the chance.

Get him on a track

with a piece of technique, I tell you...

Please don't tell me, Sandy,

I don't want to hear.

Eric's special to me, precious.

I don't want his work spoiled

with all this running talk, do you hear?

ERIC:

Is there a John MacMillan anywhere?

Go on, get your consolation prize.

There you are.

Well done.

You know, ladies and gentlemen...

...one of the real compensations

of achieving a certain notoriety...

...if only as a rugby player,

is that occasionally you're asked...

...to come along and give things away.

[CROWD CHUCKLING]

It's often said that

giving beats receiving.

And let me tell you...

...the look of delight

on those little boys'

faces is worth 10 of

any of the tin pots...

...I've got gathering dust

in my Edinburgh sideboard.

[CROWD CHUCKLING]

When we were in China, my father here...

...was always waxing lyrical

about his wee home in the glen.

But being Oriental-born myself,

like my brothers and my sister here...

...I suffered from a natural incredulity.

But looking about me now...

...the heather and the hills...

...I can see he was right.

It's very special.

[CROWD APPLAUDING]

Thank you for welcoming us home,

and thank you...

...for reminding me that I am,

and will be whilst I breath...

[COW MOOS]

[CHILDREN LAUGH]

...a Scot.

[CROWD APPLAUDING]

Mr. Provost, sir...

Before you allow Eric here to go...

...is it not true

that the main event of the meeting...

- ...is still to be run?

PROVOST:
It is.

The 200-yards Open Championship.

It's the last event of this gathering

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