LETTER OF THE MONTH
NEED FOR SPEED
I don’t want to belittle Roger Bannister’s stupendous achievement, but to describe his sub four-minute mile as “something no human had ever managed before” Giant Leaps in History, August 2019 smacks of Western and temporal elitism. I like to imagine a distant ancestor running a four-minute mile ahead of a herd of charging wildebeest or sabre-toothed tiger.