My head was pounding and I struggled to catch my breath as my time finally appeared: 3:59.78 and all the pain instantly went away.
By Steve Slattery
The story of my first 4 minute Mile started in elementary school gym class. We were running the Mile and I decided I was going to run as hard as...
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Australian records first sub-4 minute Mile for a professional in a handicap race on Bendigo Showgrounds grass track
From The Age
Before the era of open athletics, professional and amateur athletes often seemed to operate in parallel worlds.
They looked the same; they ran the same distances,...
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By Dick Patrick, USA Today
Fifty years ago today, Roger Bannister recorded the first sub-four-minute Mile — 3:59.4. Since then, as the world record has improved 16 seconds, elite U.S. male Milers have become practically an endangered species.
In an Olympic year, the talk isn't if the USA will...
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Was Roger Bannister the first man to run a Mile in under 4 minutes or was he just the first amateur?, asks one of Britain's top sports historians
By Peter Radford, The Observer
There were no celebrations on May 9, 1970 to mark the 200th anniversary of the first 4 minute Mile, and no tours...
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