BLISTERS FOR BLIGHTY: The Curious World of Race Walking

Unique physical challenge, or pointless pursuit? Serious competitive test, or hobby? Legitimate athletics event, or stain on the Olympic roster? Blisters for Blighty, the first film of any substance on the sport of race walking, explores this controversial sport – one that divides pundits and arouses in the spectator everything from fascination to derision. Set up and down Britain in the months leading up to the final qualifying event for London 2012, we witness the toil on the feet and personal lives of four of Britain’s most enthusiastic race walkers as they attempt to qualify for Team GB. Blisters for Blighty might just do for athletics what Spinal Tap did for heavy metal.