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Strange Spectator Sport Movies
By Alison Willmore
, Matt Singer
on 04/30/2007
"The Flying Scotsman," MGM, 2007
"The Flying Scotsman," which opens this week, stars Johnny Lee Miller as Graeme Obree, an amateur cyclist who broke the world hour record. As far as spectator sports go, track-bound solitary speed cycling may rank as one of the least naturally cinematic to watch. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at some other spectator-unfriendly sports and see how they've fared on screen.
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