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The 4-minute Mile: Greatest Sports Story?

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Bannister, the First Human Being in History to Run a Mile in Less Than Four Minutes

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The first human being to run a mile in less than four minutes. In six weeks, bannister's record was broken. Since then, over the years, there have been more than 15 hundred athletes to do it.

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