Going the Distance

4/6/2026

This is an overlong and disappointingly dry commentary on the build up by eight athletes from around the world to the XI Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. The whole premiss of these games harks back to colonial times but the thrust of this documentary doesn't really attempt to politicise that, but instead seems more intent on celebrating a diversity that allows a young girl who trains by running on a dirt track around her Kenyan village; or a gent suffering from chronic malaria whose training involves a daily jog up to an altitude of 7,00 feet, with others from more developed nations like a gymnast from Canada whose parents built a training facility so she could practise. Each of these competitors shows clearly that though opportunity undoubtedly plays a part, in the end it is about skill an