HISTORY provides a rich source of material for books and Jason Beck is not short of stories in The Miracle Mile: Stories of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. Beck works as curator at the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in Vancouver, the Canadian city that staged the 1954 event, and his account focuses not only on the mile clash between Roger Bannister and John Landy but also on many of the other great clashes and performances.
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