which Eric is accidentally knocked down by a competitor but against all human odds manages to win anyway. The remarkable event really did happen in July 1923 at Stoke-on-Trent at a so-called Triangular Contest track meet between Scotland, England, and Ireland. Literally right out of the blocks—near the very start of the race—Eric was badly knocked down, and in a quarter-mile race at such a high level of competition, fractions of a second determine the winner. Anyone knocked down is quite simply out