It also involves something even worse: blatant, obvious racism. It was the deliberate result of the flourishing of the fetishization of amateurism, first in Great Britain in the 1800's, and then throughout the world through the Olympic movement.Ĭ-Block (25:30) IN SPORTS PART THREE: Sadly, the concoction by which Roger Bannister's feat 69 years ago was turned into "the first human ever, ever, since man crawled out of the ooze, to run a mile in four minutes" is more than just elitist revisionist nonsense. On Sunday morning, the running community awoke to the news that Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to break the four-minute mile barrier, passed away peacefully at the age of 88 in. Why?ī-Block (19:17) IN SPORTS PART TWO: The erasure of the runners who "broke" the four-minute mile barrier in the 18th Century (or earlier) was no accident. And yet the history of these earlier athletes has been forgotten or erased - or deliberately purged. There is ample evidence of runners - other British runners in fact - performing the feat as early as 1770. He could not POSSIBLY have been the first man to run a mile in four minutes or less. Roger Bannister won immortal praise, for the rest of his long life and beyond, despite racism and controversy and one minor detail. It was an accomplishment as unbelievable as the Moon Landing so unbelievable that an editorial in The New York Times asked if it would ever be accomplished again. It is now 69 years since Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in four minutes or less. Talk to you Monday!Ī-Block (1:30) N SPORTS: Saturday, May 6, the sports world will do what it always does on May 6: celebrate the most remarkable track and field milestone of the 20th Century (and maybe of all time). The greatest lesson we can learn from the achievement of Roger Bannister, who broke the 4-minute mile in 1954 and who died at 88 yesterday, arises from someone else breaking his record only seven. If you've heard Episode 194, this'll be a re-run. Please note: this is the back two-thirds of Episode 194 from May 5, 2023, repeated and isolated so new listeners can get right to the Roger Bannister story without the news. EPISODE 195: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
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