Sir Roger Bannister RIP
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Sir Roger Bannister RIP
Just been announced that Sir Roger Bannister, the first athlete to break the four minute mile, has passed away at the age of 88.
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Sir Roger Bannister...4 minute miler...RIP.
He has died aged 88..RIP
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RIP Sir Roger
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R.I.P. Roger Bannister ..
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I met Sir Roger Bannister Bannister a few years ago when he came to open a sports centre at the school in London where I worked at that time.
He was an old boy of the school, and the sports centre was being named after him. I got introduced to him and he wanted to know how the school was
doing, in particular my own department. What a lovely man he was, really with it and so articulate and smart - he was really posh and I could tell his
life had been very different to mine.. - we had a glass of wine each and chatted for about ten minutes.
Fair play to him for his massive sporting achievement back then, and the wonderful medical career that he had subsequently.
RIP.
He was an old boy of the school, and the sports centre was being named after him. I got introduced to him and he wanted to know how the school was
doing, in particular my own department. What a lovely man he was, really with it and so articulate and smart - he was really posh and I could tell his
life had been very different to mine.. - we had a glass of wine each and chatted for about ten minutes.
Fair play to him for his massive sporting achievement back then, and the wonderful medical career that he had subsequently.
RIP.
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Did so much for sport, a great ambassador, RIP
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Not certain about this, but I thought he was brought up at the building in Barrowford which is now a heritage centre.
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RIP Sir Roger Bannister. More proof that running is bad for you health
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RIP
Funeral cortege leaves Oxford at ten a.m.
Arrives at Westminster Abbey at four minutes past ten am.
Funeral cortege leaves Oxford at ten a.m.
Arrives at Westminster Abbey at four minutes past ten am.
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Has ancestral links to our area. Father born in Trawden and married in Burnley before moving to London. Links also to Bannisters who founded Boundary Mill.
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Sir Roger Bannister RIP
Died yesterday, 3rd March, aged 88.
RIP.
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RIP.
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Another milestone in history bites the dust.
He was always a milestone for me,a time to aim for, a target that would justify my effort. Never to be achieved but always
Sought.
RIP A great athlete.
He was always a milestone for me,a time to aim for, a target that would justify my effort. Never to be achieved but always
Sought.
RIP A great athlete.
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Oops, missed that - my apologies.
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He broke that record in the days when athletics was amateur and not tainted by doping.
RIP
RIP
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Didn't realize he had trained to become a neurologist which is said to have given him a unique perspective when he developed Parkinson's Disease.
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Outlasted those who paced him for the record in Chris Brasher died quite young aged 64 in 2003 and Chris Chataway who died in 2014 aged 82.
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There can be only one and he was the one!
ŔIP Sir Roger.
ŔIP Sir Roger.
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It couldn't be done...until it was.
Those are the records to break!
Thank you Sir Roger.
Those are the records to break!
Thank you Sir Roger.