Roger’s four minutes to immortality

Roger Bannister remembers those fabled four minutes as if they were yesterday.

Mon, 07 May, 2012 - 01:00
Stephen Wilson

Like a proud patriarch regaling wide-eyed children, the 83-year-old avidly recounts that magical four-lap race on a cinder track in Oxford on May 6, 1954 — an event that still stands as a transcendent moment in sports.

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