'We have lost a giant': athletics world hails Sir Roger Bannister
Sebastian Coe leads tributes to British athlete who was first to break the four-minute mile
Sir Roger Bannister, the first athlete to sprint through the four-minute-mile barrier, has been hailed as a trailblazer who “made the impossible possible” and inspired generations of British people to take up sport, following his death aged 88.
Sebastian Coe, president of athletics governing body the IAAF, led the tributes that also came from medicine, academia and sports administration – fields that Bannister also took to with vigour and considerable success after he hung up his spikes aged just 25.
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