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* [[Notable Original Music]]: And this is turned into a [[Memetic Mutation]], thanks to its use when someone is running in ''slow-motion''.

* [[Opposing Sports Team]]: Averted. The American track team are reasonably decent people.

* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: a notably amiable form in which everyone was greeting each others' flags, etc and assuming themselves and everyone else was part of a [[True Companions|True Companionship]] of nations.

* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: A notably amiable form in which everyone was greeting each others' flags, etc and assuming themselves and everyone else was part of a [[True Companions|True Companionship]] of nations.

* [[Period Piece]]

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] : Harold gives this to the Cambridge Masters.

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Harold gives this to the Cambridge Masters.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] : Eric is red, Harold blue.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Eric is red, Harold blue.

* [[The Roaring Twenties]]: Largely averted, even for a British film.

* [[Serious Business]]: For different reasons, running is a matter of life and death for the two leads. Lindsay, by contrast, takes it much less seriously.

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* [[Writer on Board]]: One of the producers was a socialist, and didn't like that a lord had completed the quad race at Cambridge, so he changed it to Abrahams. This understandably didn't sit well with David Burghley, the real life runner, so he didn't allow his name to be used in the film. The completely original character of Lord Lindsay was written instead.

* [[The X of Y]]

* [[Ye Goode Olde Days]] : ''Lots'' of nostalgia. Practically fuels the show.

* [[Ye Goode Olde Days]]: ''Lots'' of nostalgia. Practically fuels the show.