News RIP Roger Bannister.

[Notebook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/43273249

Sir Roger Bannister, the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, has died at the age of 88.
His time of three minutes 59.4 seconds, set at Iffley Road sports ground in Oxford on 6 May 1954, stood as a record for just 46 days but his place in athletics history was assured.

Bannister also won gold over the same distance at the 1954 Commonwealth Games and later became a leading neurologist.

He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2011.

Last of the "amateur" sports greats, I think.

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[boogabooga]

0.6 seconds from being a "nobody"?

 

[Ravenous]

It always amazed me that those were the days when a person could do elite level athletics in spare time, then give it up a few years later and go on to a "proper" career. (Medical research in his case.)