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For more than half a century the sub-four minute mile defied the world's finest middle-distance runners. Then, after a succession of athletes had threatened a mark once thought impregnable, 25-year-old English medical student Roger Bannister clocked three minutes 59.4 seconds on the evening of May 6 1954. Asked in the same year what he thought the ultimate mark would be, Bannister predicted three minutes 30 seconds. In an interview before Thursday's 50th anniversary of his epic run, Bannister saw no reason to revise his prediction, referring to the present mark of 3:43.13 set by Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj four years ago. "I think the 3-1/2-minute mile is going to be difficult," Bannister said. "That's what I thought 50 years ago but we've got halfway towards it." [...]
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