Roger Bannister was studying medicine at Oxford when he bacame the first man to run the mile in under 4 minutes.At the Iffley Road track in Oxford Roger Bannister became the first man to run 1 ...

After a long pause, he then turned to Collins and said: “This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the ...

Don’t Let the Teamsters Pick the Labor Secretary A week has passed since Roger Bannister died. The legend of the race to break the four-minute mile will live on. It united the Anglosphere in ...

Back on 6 May 1954, Roger Bannister ran a mile round the University of Oxford athletics track in three minutes 59.4 seconds. Seventy years to the day on from that seismic moment, hundreds of us ...

An area of Oxford could be renamed in memory of the late athlete Sir Roger Bannister. Oxford City Council has proposed changing the name of St Clement's as part of a review of city council wards.

Oxford City Council wanted to rename the ward after Sir Roger Bannister A proposal to rename part of Oxford in memory of the late athlete Sir Roger Bannister has been rejected. Oxford City Council ...