The final bid was £220,000, or about $340,000 dollars
Seems like a bargain.
http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2015/09/10/roger-bannister-shoes-auction-four-minute-mile-spikes-track-and-field/?utm_network=twitter&utm_post=4221449&utm_source=TW%20%40NBCSN&utm_tags=srm%5Bolympics%2Carticle%5D
Roger Bannister's sub-4 shoes get auctioned off.....Guess the price
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Sounds like a rip-off.
4:00 was not an important barrier for human ability.
It was broken by an anglo-saxon guy training part-time while doing a medical residency. That says all you need to know about how soft it was.
Now every decent college guy can do it.
Sub-10.00 was much more important. -
wake me for a 200-second 1500 wrote:
Now every decent college guy can do it.
Apparently 3:59 milers are only decent runners these days.... -
Try 3:49 milers.
