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40 Years and 4 Minutes Away From History
February 24, 2002
By FRANK LITSKY
In 1954, Roger Bannister, then an English medical student,
ran a mile outdoors in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds, the first
sub-four- minute mile.
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When the race ended, Beatty ran back to the timers.
"How fast was it?" he said, yelling over the crowd noise.
A timer shouted, "Three. . . . "
"I didn't hear the rest," Beatty said. "That's all I needed to know."
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