On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister pushed through the finishing tape at Iffley Road track in Oxford, England, and collapsed into ...

Teenage sprinter Celine Obinna-Alo is leaving competitors trailing in her wake to such an extent her coach is already predicting she will be a future world and Olympic champion. Obinna-Alo is only 15, ...

For a long time, the idea of any human running a mile faster than 4 minutes was thought of as the impossible. But in the months after England’s Roger Bannister finally broke that record in 1954, ...

On May 6, 1954, a lanky medical student named Roger Bannister pushed through the finishing tape at Iffley Road track in Oxford, England, and collapsed into the arms of friends after becoming the first ...