March 05, 2012
"Even though it is not my primary distance, it is still a goal of mine to break 4 minutes." - Dathan Ritzenhein
By Cory Olsen, Grand Rapids Press
If it were up to Ryan Lamppa, everyone would be able to run a mile. Well, not just a mile, The Mile.
Since the early 1980s when metric took over...
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March 01, 2012
By Stephen Wilson, Associated Press
OXFORD, England – Roger Bannister remembers those fabled four minutes as if they were yesterday, still as vivid in his mind today as that blustery late afternoon more than half a century ago.
Like a proud patriarch regaling his wide-eyed grandchildren, the...
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February 25, 2012
By Rhianne Pope, Oxford Mail
When Roger Bannister stepped out on to an Oxford running track nearly 60 years ago, he was about to make sporting history.
And now a project at the Oxford Playhouse is looking to hear from the 3,000 people who were there to witness the first sub-four-minute mile.
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February 24, 2012
But, for me, nothing tops the night of Coghlan’s Mile on the Sports Arena boards during the Jack in the Box Indoor Games. It was electrifying.
By Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune
It was 31 years ago this week when Eamonn Coghlan became an Irish storm, when he ran beyond the hype… by a...
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