Britain | Faster, stronger…higher?
British athletes may have won thanks to drugs, a report suggests
MPs highlight “acute failures” on doping at the highest level
SIR ROGER BANNISTER, who died on March 3rd, was the epitome of the amateur sportsman. In 1954, at the Iffley Road track in Oxford, he became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, having spent the morning on duty as a junior doctor in London.
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Britain March 10th 2018
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