The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) - Hardcover

Bascomb, Neal

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9780786265411: The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

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ISBN 10: 0786265418 ISBN 13: 9780786265411

Verlag: Thorndike Pr, 2004

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Book by Neal Bascomb

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There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be entirely 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 set out individually to break this formidable 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 the privileged son of a genteel Australian family, who as a boy preferred butterfly collecting to running but who trained relentlessly in an almost spiritual attempt to shape his mind and body to this singular task. Then there was Wes Santee, the swaggering American, a Kansas farm boy and natural athlete who believed he was just plain better than everybody else.

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