The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.

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I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say...

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May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad....

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Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is...

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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing,...

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I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.

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I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was...

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My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let...

I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent...

I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent...

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top...

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I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet...

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I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as...

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It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes....

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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man...

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.

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