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Originally Posted by Elrazor
Also remembered I had read it someone where. Checked a couple of indexes and found it here:Williams, J. M. E & Crane, V. (2015). Applied sport psychology: Personal growth to peak performance . New York, New York: Mayfield Publishing Co.
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Within the next year, 37 runners broke the 4-minute barrier
It's a core academic text for sport psychology, so I'm inclined to think their claim had some merit, but it obviously by no means proof.
I really find that hard to believe - where on earth were all of these meetings being held?
Does your source have a reference to a list (or partial list) of those 37? Preferably from some sort of running/athletics records book/site.
I take the point that the sub4mile may have been a psychological barrier - and also that the record was relatively soft. But without further evidence I think I prefer my list as linked before. (And this seems to have about 16 or so people making the cutoff by the end of 1957 as per the newspaper article.) I'm somewhat inclined to believe that this (30? 37? people breaking the barrier within one year of Bannister) is a folk-myth in psychology circles.
Last edited by tchaz; 10-14-2015 at 09:47 AM.