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Article: An enduring image ormer Evening Standard athletics correspondent Neil Allen recalls the day he watched Roger Bannister break the four-minute mile 50 years ago this week
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 4, 2004
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FON THURSDAY evening, watching athletes race for fun at Oxford
University's Iffley Road athletics ground, it will be moving to
reflect that exactly 50 years ago I was right there, perfectly
positioned in the middle of the oval as a 21-yearold reporter, trying
to take in every second and every stride of Roger Bannister's leap
into sporting fame as the first man to run a mile in less than four
minutes.
One British book on deeds of the last sporting century had a
prestigious panel vote that the greatest sporting performance of the
past was the Rumble in the Jungle, Muhammad Ali's world heavyweight
championship victory over George Foreman in l974 in Zaire. Second was
Bannister's 3min 59.4sec ...