Coming out on the night of his Olympic win in 1976, he became the first openly gay Olympian in a time when homosexuality was not even fully legal. Toxic yet charming; rebellious yet elitist; emotionally aloof yet spectacularly needy; ferociously ambitious yet bent on self-destruction, this is a man forever on the run: from his father's ghost, his country, and even his own self.

Above all, an artist and an athlete whose body time and time again – sometimes against his will – becomes a political battlefield.

**Unfortunately the introduction from Declan Meehan in tonight's screening, Wed 28 Feb, will not be going ahead due to adverse weather conditions**