The perfect mile : three athletes, one goal, and less than four minutes to achieve it / Neal Bascomb.

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 formidab...

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Main Author: Bascomb, Neal.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004.
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Call Number: GV1061.14 .B38 2004
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