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 ...

Roger Bannister remembers those fabled four minutes as if they were yesterday. Like a proud patriarch regaling wide-eyed children, the 82-year-old avidly recounts that magical four-lap race on a ...

“It was as if Mount Everest had been relocated to Oxford – and we could watch it being climbed,” recalls the historian Peter Whitfield, who was only six in 1954 when, exactly a year after Edmund ...

Bannister's passion for running took off in 1945 when his father took him to a track meet at London's White City Stadium, which was built to host the 1908 Olympics. They watched British ...

LONDON, July 27 (Reuters) - Roger Bannister, the British athlete who shot to fame in 1954 by running the first sub-four-minute mile, says he would have retired two years earlier had he won a gold ...