In 1954, at the age of 25, Roger Bannister made headlines around the world as the first person to run a mile under 4 minutes. Bannister's 3:59:4 mile unlocked the door to what was possible in track — ...

Self-doubt is all too common in today’s world. We have a terrible habit of letting our fears, our weaknesses and what happened in the past creep into the present and diminish our self-belief. It’s ...

Dr. Roger Bannister climbed the Mt. Everest of track-and-field in 1954. The Briton ran the first sub-four-minute mile, once believed likely to be fatal. He broke both the actual and psychological ...

For a long time, the idea of any human running a mile faster than 4 minutes was thought of as the impossible. But in the months after England’s Roger Bannister finally broke that record in 1954, ...