In 1987, in Boise, ID football coach Jim White is chastising his players for an underwhelming half. Jim gets into a verbal altercation with one of the players, resulting in Jim throwing a football shoe with cleats at him. Following this incident, Jim is forced to move with his wife, Cheryl, and two daughters, Julie and Jamie. They settle down in McFarland, California, a predominantly Hispanic town. On their first night there, the family goes to a small restaurant and leaves to find a large gathering of Latinos in cars surrounding the place. One man makes suggestive motions toward Julie, prompting the family to leave faster.
Paul is a workoholic who has a handicaped son named Julien. When Paul loses his job his son convinces him to tackle a mutual endeavour. Together they take part in a Triathlon competition.
Franklin Ébagé est un athlète franco-camerounais, coureur du 100 mètres. Après avoir décroché une médaille d'argent aux Jeux olympiques il y a quelques années sur une faute de ses adversaires, sa carrière bat de l'aile. À 34 ans, il est cependant toujours obnubilé par l’envie de briller à n’importe quel prix. Cependant, il n'a plus de sponsors, et ne peut compter que sur le soutien de sa petite-amie Pauline, de son agent Lionel et de son ami Samir...
The film opens showing Louis "Louie" Zamperini flying as a bombardier of a United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber, during an April 1943 bombing mission against the Japanese-held island of Nauru. The plane is badly damaged in combat, with a number of the crew injured. The hydraulics of the plane are shot and damaged, but the pilot, Phil, manages to bring it to a stop at the end of the runway thanks to a flat tire.
Tchécoslovaquie années 80, Anna, jeune et talentueuse sprinteuse sélectionnée dans l’équipe nationale, s’entraîne pour la qualification aux Jeux Olympiques. Ses entraîneurs lui administrent à son insu des stéroïdes anabolisant. Ses performances s’améliorent spectaculairement mais après un malaise lors de l’entraînement, elle apprend la vérité. Anna décide de poursuivre l’entraînement sans dopants, au risque de ne plus être à niveau, ce qui inquiète sa mère qui voit dans cette qualification aux J.O. l’opportunité pour sa fille de passer derrière le rideau de fer. Après que la jeune sportive finisse derrière lors d’une course, sa mère informe le coach qu’elle ne prend plus de stéroïdes. Ils décident ensemble de lui en injecter secrètement, sous prétexte de lui administrer de simples vitamines.
The film starts in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where a coach says "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag!" The story is taken back to the memories of the childhood days of a young boy which haunted him, resulting in him dropping to fourth. Partition of India in 1947 caused chaos which resulted in mass religious violence in Punjab in British India, killing the parents of Milkha Singh (Farhan Akhtar). He reaches Delhi and later meets his sister there. Living in impoverished refugee camps, Milkha soon makes friends and survives by stealing along with his friends. He falls in love with Biro (Sonam Kapoor), but she asks him to live a life of honesty.
The films starts in 1987 with the doctors struggling to protect a woman and her baby. Meanwhile, the woman's husband prays to his native deity that if his wife delivers his baby successfully, he would name the baby with the name of the deity. The baby is born without any problems and as per the wish, they name the baby, Kunjithapadham (Sivakarthikeyan).
The focus of the film is on the seven runners participating in the Rome Marathon. Shots of the marathon are interspersed with interviews and documentary footage of the runners. Running experts who are not involved directly in the race are also interviewed. The experts include American authors Hal Higdon, Jeff Galloway, John Bingham, and Roger Robinson. American runners Bill Rodgers, Frank Shorter, Nina Kuscsik, Kathrine Switzer, Mary Wittenberg, and Rod Dixon are also interviewed. Italian runners Gelindo Bordin, Orlando Pizzolato, and Stefano Baldini are interviewed, as well as former world record holder, Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie, British world-record holder Paula Radcliffe, and Norwegian Grete Waitz.
After coming in with top marks at her training camp Sarah (Sophie Desmarais) is encouraged to go to McGill University to train. When she brings up the idea to her parents they shoot her down telling her they don't have the money. Sarah talks with her co-worker Antoine (Jean-Sébastien Courchesne) about wanting to go to Montreal. He decides to move with her in order to help her financially. On their way to Montreal Antoine suggests that they marry in order to obtain financing available to young couple in university. Sarah shrugs him off.
A reporter interviews Paan Singh Tomar (played by Irrfan), a dacoit who is in the news for killing 9 people of a community. Answering questions about himself, the story goes in a flashback in year 1950. Paan Singh works in the Army while his wife and mother live in Morena. He surprises his seniors in the Army with his athletic skills. Though he was not interested in sports, he joins the sports division because there were no limits on their diet. Picked for the 5000 metres race's training, he was persuaded to run for the 3000 metre steeplechase by his coach. He participates in the Indian National Games and wins the gold medal in the steeplechase event 7 years in a row. In 1958 he participates in the Asian Games at Tokyo, but couldn't win because of his inability to adjust with the track spikes only given to him in the final event. He felt frustrated when he was not allowed to go the borders to fight in the 1962 and 1965 wars because sportsmen were not allowed to fight in them. In 1967, he participated in the International Military Games and wins the gold medal in the steeplechase.
Leïla sort de prison après cinq années d'enfermement. Elle va rencontrer Yannick, un jeune athlète devenu aveugle après un accident. Ce dernier pratique la course malgré son handicap, mais pour courir il doit être relié par un fil à une personne appelée guide. Il propose à Leïla d'être son guide. À travers ce projet, ils vont apprendre à se reconstruire.
The year is 1928 in Gyeong-seong (modern-day Seoul), Korea. Young Kim Jun-shik (Shin Sang-yeob), his father (Chun Ho-jin) and sister Eun-soo (Jo Min-ah) work on the farm of the Hasegawa family (Sano Shiro, Nakamura Kumi) in Japanese-occupied Korea. Both Jun-shik and young Hasegawa Tatsuo (Sung Yoo-bin) are interested in running; by the time they are teenagers (Do Ji-han, Kobayashi Yukichi), they have become fierce competitors. Tatsuo's grandfather (Natsuyagi Isao) is killed in a bomb attack by a Korean freedom fighter, and subsequently a Korean runner, Sohn Kee-chung (Yoon Hee-won), wins a marathon race against Japanese competitors, further inflaming Korean-Japanese tensions.
My Run tells the true story of two journeys. The first, which began in 1984, opens the film when Terry Hitchcock's wife Sue dies of breast cancer. Only a few days later he loses his job. Suddenly, he finds himself alone with his three young children and no income.