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May 6, 2004
50 Years On, Celebrating the Miracle Mile
'While the four-minute mile was important to me once,' Roger Bannister said last week, 'it's now in the back of my mind. The real result turned out to be the wonderful, lifelong friendships I had with Chris Brasher (the 1956 Olympic 3000 metres steeplechase gold medallist), and Chris Chataway (who broke the world 5000 metres record in 1954). Both men were his pacemakers during the historic race.
'They (the friendships) were formed in the fire of passion and effort, and sustained amid the reverses we all had. So the race taught us we could do most things we turned our minds to in later life. And it made us friends.'
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