||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A must read for runners and non-runners alike|By JKLM05|I am a runner and I love it. (Though that hasn’t always been the case.) So I was naturally interested in this book since it’s all about runners. But there is also historical significance in learning more about this event along with what was going on in the world at the time it took place. I was fascinated by t|From Publishers Weekly|The attempt by three men in the 1950s to become the first to run the mile in less than four minutes is a classic 20th-century sports story. Bascomb's excellent account captures all of the human drama and competitive excitement of this leg
There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed, and in all of sport it was the elusive holy grail. In 1952, after suffering defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, three world-class runners each set out to break this barrier. Roger Bannister was a young English medical student who epitomized the ideal of the amateur — still driven not just by winning but by the nobility of the pursuit. John Landy was t... [PDF.xq51] Astonishing Legends The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It Rating: 3.72 (647 Votes)
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