Steel Icarus
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Did the impossible. Didn't even win Sports Personality of the Year that year. Became as far as I can tell a genial neurologist.
RIP, Roger.
RIP, Roger.
Sir Roger Bannister has died
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
...and a proponent of the slave genes nonsense.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Wasn't he acquainted with the mcwhirters?
Steel Icarus
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You know, I KNEW someone would be along shortly to say why he was a bastard. Gotta love Urban.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
probably still quicker off the mark than me
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Oh, that is sad.
He was at university with my father. My father is abroad right now, so won't know until he returns.
He was at university with my father. My father is abroad right now, so won't know until he returns.
Apparently his health had been sliding downhill for a while
Steel Icarus
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Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Yeah, he had Parkinsons, and has not been well for a while.
It is probably only sad for me because of the link with my father. I only met him once, so he is not a personal friend or anything, but it is a reminder that my father is old - something I like to forget.
Baronage-Phase
Well-Known Member
Parkinson's is a shitty disease too....for anyone...but feckin rough on someone who was an athlete I would think.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Does anyone in the athletics world outside of the UK give a shit about the 4-minute mile? I don't think the mile has ever featured on the Olympic programme, and few countries outside the Anglophonic world measure anything in miles.
Maybe a question for another thread.
Maybe a question for another thread.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Bit ironic that a neurologist developed Parkinson's.
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Don't know anything about racist attitudes, and this really isn't the place to discuss that aspect.
However, for an amateur athlete also training for a medical career Bannister achieved a great deal.
RIP for all the right things !
stavros
The mile is still a feature in international athletics ...
Mile run - Wikipedia
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Don't know anything about racist attitudes, and this really isn't the place to discuss that aspect.
However, for an amateur athlete also training for a medical career Bannister achieved a great deal.
RIP for all the right things !
stavros
The mile is still a feature in international athletics ...
Mile run - Wikipedia
I know it still exists. I'm questioning if those outside the UK regard it in such high esteem. The fact that no one has gone to beat El Guerrouj's world record after nearly twenty years did make me think it was somewhat irrelevant, although I then looked at his 1,500m record, which is even older, so perhaps I was wrong.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Suspect this will have been reported abroad
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Hmm, maybe. He is in Sri Lanka. When he gets back, I will ask him if it was reported widely enough for him to have heard.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
He’s nearly 88. The internet has left him behind a little bit.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Probably not the best time to be in Sri Lanka (without wishing to alarm you).
Sri Lanka blocks social media as deadly violence continues
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Well, you have alarmed me!!
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
No offence, but this is entirely the place to discuss that aspect. Urban isn't a memorial/remembrance book for every celebrity, if you want to leave a memory somewhere without criticism and it is not about a deceased member of this forum, then look for an appropriate memorial site online to do so.
