Like many, I’ve used the story of Roger Bannister becoming the first man to run a sub-four minute mile in 1954 as an example of breakthrough thinking: A transformational event that eliminated a ...

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The world record for the mile hovered just above 4 minutes for nine years, with challengers unable to break that coveted figure. England’s Roger Bannister, a 1952 Olympian who finished fourth in the 1 ...

Roger Bannister ran history’s first sub-four-minute mile on May 6, 1954, on the Iffley Road Track in Oxford, England. My own personal history began on the same day at Sisters of Charity Hospital in ...

On the morning of 6 May 1954, Sir Roger Bannister did the impossible. The Daily Telegraph, at the time had described the sub-four-minute mile as “sport’s greatest goal”, something “as elusive and ...

Roger Bannister remembers those fabled four minutes as if they were yesterday. Like a proud patriarch regaling wide-eyed children, the 82-year-old avidly recounts that magical four-lap race on a ...

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BIRMINGHAM, England -- The world of athletics stopped to watch Roger Bannister run as a black-and-white video was shown on a giant screen at the world indoor athletics championships on Sunday.