There is a delightful retro feel to this composition: not in just the actual posters, but in the whole layout of the noticeboard. I love the hand drawn and coloured Olympic rings (which this time are correct in design) which helps make the whole display so endearing as someone has gone to a lot of time and effort to produce this.
As for the posters, they too are delightfully retro - the one on the left has a simple message, which leaves us to draw our own conclusions, over a drawing of two runners that could have come from a school textbook in the late seventies or thereabouts. The writing is angled as the sole designer-y touch, to follow the route on which the race, which is to be run with perseverance, is being run. Simple, artless and charming. The only question is why the cross of St Patrick has been left out of the Union Flag - is the artist a secret Irish republican?
The poster on the right is also quite retro in style, but this time the torch (with its subtle cross - nice one) reminds me of the old pre-oak tree Conservative Party logo, rather than the Olympic flame. I know the Church of England has been described as 'the Tory Party at prayer', but come on... Nice use of an appropriate biblical quotation though, rather than going full out for the pun.
All in all a display that sums up the rural C of E. Maybe not a gold medal, but it gets a Pierre De Coubertin medal for sportsmanship from me.

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