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Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Roger Bannister's Miracle Mile - 60 Years On





60 years ago today, medical student Roger Bannister made sporting history by doing what many thought impossible, running a mile in under four minutes.


To celebrate the anniversary of this historic event, we've dug out some of the original newspaper articles from 1954, along with others leading up to this year.


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The Daily Mail, 07/05/1954






The Star, 07/05/1954





Roger Wins at the British Empire Games, 1954 
News of the World, 08/08/1954





50th Anniversary, May 2004





Photographed by Norman Potter in 1954
Times Magazine, 21/05/2005





Carrying the Olympic Torch, 2012
The Guardian, 11/07/2012




60th Anniversary, May 2014








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