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BANNISTER MEETS CHRUCHILL.

Currency:GBP Category:Collectibles Start Price:24.00 GBP Estimated At:50.00 - 75.00 GBP
BANNISTER MEETS CHRUCHILL.
Roger Bannister signed photo. After he was met by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. 10x8 inches.On the morning of May 6, 1954, it was raining steadily across the south of England and the wind was blowing hard. Roger Bannister’s mood matched the skies above. Then a medical student, he was also Britain’s best middle-distance runner, whom many people were tipping to become the first man in the world to run a mile in less than four minutes. But he was also the man everyone had predicted to win gold at the Olympic Games in Helsinki two years previously. He came fourth. The headlines screamed he was a failure. The memory of Helsinki exacerbated his state of mind. He knew that the wind would slow him down by about a second a lap -- and the mile was four laps long. Sir Roger describes the laps unfolding "almost like the evolving of a Greek tragedy, or a triumph, in which everything is encapsulated in that short period of time”.


Condition:
Very good.