Belief earns its reward as Ireland no longer fear All Black bogeyman
They said that, physiologically, it couldn’t be done and then, on a damp May evening in Oxford University in 1954, Roger Bannister broke the glass ceiling and ran the first sub 4 minute mile — 3.59.4 to be exact.
Within a year, four athletes not only repeated the feat but two, Australian John Landy and Hungary’s Laszlo Tabori, ran faster times. Indeed when Tabori won at the British Games meet in London in May 1955, the first three men across the line all cracked the four-minute-barrier in the same race for the first time. How did this happen? Belief. Once athletes saw that it could be done, the floodgates opened.
