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the Mile (please watch in full HD)
About A Mile - Wanna Be
Mile Kitic - luda devojko
Hicham El Guerrouj sets a world record in the mile
The Miracle Mile
The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
About A Mile From Me
The Green Mile Trailer
The Who- I can see for miles
8 Mile Official Trailer #1 - (2002) HD
300 Pound Marlin Tows Kayak 11 MILES
500 Miles with Lyrics

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the Mile (please watch in full HD)
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  • Published: 09 Mar 2012
  • Duration: 4:28
  • Updated: 24 May 2012
Author: trackhos
footage taken during a one day celebration of speed in Subic Bay, in the Philippines on Nov 27, 2011. all proceeds from the event went to the Philippine Red Cross in aid of the victims of the Typhoon Sendong tragedy. thanks for watching
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About A Mile - Wanna Be
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  • Published: 14 Aug 2011
  • Duration: 3:02
  • Updated: 22 May 2012
Author: aboutamileband
About A Mile - WANNA BE EVERYONES A WANNA BE AND WE ALL WANNA BE LIKE SOMEONE ELSE COVERED UP IN LIES AND THE DISGUISES THAT ARE HIDING OURSELVES IT'S JUST LIKE WATCHING TV AND PRETENDING I'M ME OH I'M SO DONE WITH THIS SHOW I WANNA KNOW WHO I AM (chorus) I DON'T WANNA BE JUST ANOTHER WANNA BE LIVING LIFE IN A WORLD OF MAKE BELIEVE GOT NO IDENTITY I WANNA BE MORE WANNA BE THE ME THAT SOMEONE WHO IS SOMETHING REAL SOMETHING TRUE GOD I AM FOUND IN YOU I WANNA BE YOURS NO MORE PLAYING GAMES AND CHANGING NAMES JUST LIKE I'M ACTING THE PART IF WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET, I WANNA BE A TRANSPARENT HEART I'M INTRODUCING THEM TO NOT ONLY ME BUT TO YOU SO NICE TO MEET YOU HELLO I FINALLY KNOW WHO I AM (chorus) I DON'T WANNA BE JUST ANOTHER WANNA BE LIVING LIFE IN A WORLD OF MAKE BELIEVE GOT NO IDENTITY I WANNA BE MORE WANNA BE THE ME THAT SOMEONE WHO IS SOMETHING REAL SOMETHING TRUE GOD I AM FOUND IN YOU I WANNA BE YOURS About A Mile facebook - www.facebook.com/aboutamileband About A Mile twitter - twitter.com/#!/aboutamile
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Mile Kitic - luda devojko
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  • Published: 08 Oct 2006
  • Duration: 3:14
  • Updated: 24 May 2012
Author: BalkanWeb
Mile Kitic - luda devojko ..
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Hicham El Guerrouj sets a world record in the mile
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  • Published: 19 Jan 2006
  • Duration: 3:59
  • Updated: 24 May 2012
Author: kufan101
In 1999, Hicham El Guerrouj ran 3:43.13 in a mile race in Rome - breaking the previous world record by over a second.
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The Miracle Mile
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  • Published: 20 May 2009
  • Duration: 4:23
  • Updated: 23 May 2012
Author: futureshorts
Director: James Lees / UK / 2009 An exciting and poetic short documentary exploring the four minute mile, the perfect race. Englishman Roger Bannister was the first to break it and now it is considered the standard for any competitive long distance runner to master. Longer races are boring. But not the mile. The mile, in under four minutes. This is a short documentary about the history of an astounding human feat. This months' Future Shorts festival title is inspired by Golden Bear winning film 'Please Say Something' by David O'Reilly which is featured as part of the programme.
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The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
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  • Published: 25 Feb 2009
  • Duration: 3:39
  • Updated: 25 May 2012
Author: emimusic
Music video by The Proclaimers performing I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles).
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About A Mile From Me
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  • Published: 14 Apr 2010
  • Duration: 6:31
  • Updated: 21 May 2012
Author: aboutamileband
Add us on Facebook www.facebook.com and twitter twitter.com www.aboutamile.net
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The Green Mile Trailer
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  • Published: 12 Feb 2007
  • Duration: 2:17
  • Updated: 25 May 2012
Author: Gayoshi
Trailer for The Green Mile. Surprised I couldn't find it here, so I just thought I'd upload it. In my opinion one of the best movies ever made.
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The Who- I can see for miles
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  • Published: 12 Jul 2007
  • Duration: 3:52
  • Updated: 24 May 2012
Author: alkhemisti1923
the Whos I can see for miles from 1967. Rock Hard!!! leave a comment pls.
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8 Mile Official Trailer #1 - (2002) HD
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  • Published: 02 Sep 2011
  • Duration: 2:53
  • Updated: 24 May 2012
Author: movieclips
8 Mile Movie Trailer - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp A young rapper (Eminem) struggles to seize an opportunity within his bleak life but his problems threaten to weigh him down. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Eminem, Mekhi Phifer, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy Director: Curtis Hanson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Carol Fenelon, Gregory Goodman, Brian Grazer, Curtis Hanson, Jimmy Iovine, Stuart Parr, Paul Rosenberg, James Whitaker Screenwriter: Scott Silver Film Description: Controversial rap star Eminem makes his acting debut in this hard-edged urban drama, inspired in part by incidents from the musician's own life. Jimmy Smith (Eminem), known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit's entire life has been a hard climb, and it certainly hasn't gotten any easier lately; Rabbit has just been dumped by his girlfriend, forcing him to move back in with his emotionally unstable mother, Stephanie (Kim Basinger), and he's getting along especially poorly with Stephanie's new boyfriend. Rabbit has a factory job that's tough, demeaning, and doesn't pay especially well, and he's convinced his skills as a rapper are his only real hope at a better life. Rabbit makes music with a crew of DJ's and MC's who call themselves Three One Third, among them his close friend Future (Mekhi Phifer), but his status as a <b>...</b>
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300 Pound Marlin Tows Kayak 11 MILES
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  • Published: 07 Mar 2010
  • Duration: 4:22
  • Updated: 24 May 2012
Author: KayakFishingTales
Kayaker catches huge marlin and gets towed 11 miles out to sea over 5 hours. For all your kayak fishing needs visit HOOK1 Kayak Fishing www.kayakfishinggear.com Produced by The Heliconia Press http Find kayak fishing tips and tricks at www.kayakbassintv.com LEARN Check out some of our other YouTube channels Kayak Fishing Tales www.youtube.com Kayak Bassin TV www.youtube.com Stand Up Paddling www.youtube.com Whitewater Kayaking www.youtube.com Canoeing www.youtube.com Recreational Paddling www.youtube.com Sea Kayaking www.youtube.com SHOP If you're a kayak angler, or looking at getting into kayak fishing, you'll find everything you need at HOOK1 Kayak Fishing Gear at www.kayakfishinggear.com. These guys know kayak fishing, offer great prices and provide exceptional customer service. They also ship worldwide. Call them Toll Free (866) 486-8412, or email Support@KayakFishingGear.com KAYAKS Interested in learning more about the great looking kayaks in these episodes? They're ALL made by Ocean Kayak - one of the world's largest and most reputable manufacturers of sit-on-top kayaks. The Ocean Kayak Trident and Trident Ultra are the boats of choice for the Kayak Fishing Tales team. Designed by anglers for anglers, they're fast, stable, and provide an ideal fishing platform for both freshwater and saltwater fishing. Check out all the Ocean Kayaks at www.oceankayak.com CLOTHING The Kayak Fishing Tales team has used ExOfficio clothing exclusively since 2007. Why? Because it <b>...</b>
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500 Miles with Lyrics
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  • Published: 29 Dec 2007
  • Duration: 3:37
  • Updated: 25 May 2012
Author: kidspwnwidrange
Work from home FREE! bit.ly Try it now... Lyrics in Description when I wake up yeah I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you When I go out yeah I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you If I get drunk yes I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you And if I haver yeah I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you But I would walk 500 miles And I would walk 500 more Just to be the man who walked 1000 miles To fall down at your door When I'm working yes I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you And when the money comes in for the work I'll do I'll pass almost every penny on to you When I come home yeah I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you And if I grow old well I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you But I would walk 500 miles And I would walk 500 more Just to be the man who walked 1000 miles To fall down at your door When I'm lonely yes I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man whose lonely without you When I'm dreaming yes I know I'm gonna dream Dream about the time when I'm with you. But I would walk 500 miles And I would walk 500 more Just to be the man who walked 1000 miles To fall down at your door
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8 Mile (1/10) Movie CLIP - Rabbit Battles Lil' Tic (2002) HD
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  • Published: 30 May 2011
  • Duration: 3:31
  • Updated: 25 May 2012
Author: movieclips
8 Mile Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp B-Rabbit (Eminem) gets in his first rap battle, and chokes big time. He gets booed off the stage. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Eminem, Evan Jones, Omar Benson Miller, Mekhi Phifer, DJ Head, Proof, De'Angelo Wilson Director: Curtis Hanson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Carol Fenelon, Gregory Goodman, Brian Grazer, Curtis Hanson, Jimmy Iovine, Stuart Parr, Paul Rosenberg, James Whitaker Screenwriter: Scott Silver Film Description: Controversial rap star Eminem makes his acting debut in this hard-edged urban drama, inspired in part by incidents from the musician's own life. Jimmy Smith (Eminem), known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit's entire life has been a hard climb, and it certainly hasn't gotten any easier lately; Rabbit has just been dumped by his girlfriend, forcing him to move back in with his emotionally unstable mother, Stephanie (Kim Basinger), and he's getting along especially poorly with Stephanie's new boyfriend. Rabbit has a factory job that's tough, demeaning, and doesn't pay especially well, and he's convinced his skills as a rapper are his only real hope at a better life. Rabbit makes music with a crew of DJ's and MC's who call themselves Three One Third, among them his close friend Future (Mekhi Phifer), but his status <b>...</b>
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8 Mile (6/10) Movie CLIP - The Lunch Truck (2002) HD
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  • Published: 30 May 2011
  • Duration: 3:28
  • Updated: 25 May 2012
Author: movieclips
8 Mile Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp On his lunch break, Rabbit (Eminem) takes a rapping co-worker down a notch. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Miz-Korona Director: Curtis Hanson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Carol Fenelon, Gregory Goodman, Brian Grazer, Curtis Hanson, Jimmy Iovine, Stuart Parr, Paul Rosenberg, James Whitaker Screenwriter: Scott Silver Film Description: Controversial rap star Eminem makes his acting debut in this hard-edged urban drama, inspired in part by incidents from the musician's own life. Jimmy Smith (Eminem), known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit's entire life has been a hard climb, and it certainly hasn't gotten any easier lately; Rabbit has just been dumped by his girlfriend, forcing him to move back in with his emotionally unstable mother, Stephanie (Kim Basinger), and he's getting along especially poorly with Stephanie's new boyfriend. Rabbit has a factory job that's tough, demeaning, and doesn't pay especially well, and he's convinced his skills as a rapper are his only real hope at a better life. Rabbit makes music with a crew of DJ's and MC's who call themselves Three One Third, among them his close friend Future (Mekhi Phifer), but his status as a white kid making music in a predominantly African-American community and culture is <b>...</b>
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  • the Mile (please watch in full HD)...4:28
  • About A Mile - Wanna Be...3:02
  • Mile Kitic - luda devojko...3:14
  • Hicham El Guerrouj sets a world record in the mile...3:59
  • The Miracle Mile...4:23
  • The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)...3:39
  • About A Mile From Me...6:31
  • The Green Mile Trailer...2:17
  • The Who- I can see for miles...3:52
  • 8 Mile Official Trailer #1 - (2002) HD...2:53
  • 300 Pound Marlin Tows Kayak 11 MILES...4:22
  • 500 Miles with Lyrics...3:37
  • 8 Mile (1/10) Movie CLIP - Rabbit Battles Lil' Tic (2002) HD...3:31
  • 8 Mile (6/10) Movie CLIP - The Lunch Truck (2002) HD...3:28
footage taken during a one day celebration of speed in Subic Bay, in the Philippines on Nov 27, 2011. all proceeds from the event went to the Philippine Red Cross in aid of the victims of the Typhoon Sendong tragedy. thanks for watching
4:28
the Mile (please watch in full HD)
3:02
About A Mile - Wanna Be
3:14
Mile Kitic - luda de­vo­jko
3:59
Hicham El Guer­rouj sets a world record in the mile
4:23
The Mir­a­cle Mile
3:39
The Pro­claimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
6:31
About A Mile From Me
2:17
The Green Mile Trail­er
3:52
The Who- I can see for miles
2:53
8 Mile Of­fi­cial Trail­er #1 - (2002) HD
4:22
300 Pound Mar­lin Tows Kayak 11 MILES
3:37
500 Miles with Lyrics
3:31
8 Mile (1/10) Movie CLIP - Rab­bit Bat­tles Lil' Tic (2002) HD
3:28
8 Mile (6/10) Movie CLIP - The Lunch Truck (2002) HD
3:20
257.7 MPH Ford GT Stand­ing Mile World Record - 2012 Texas Mile
101:09
Be­neath the 12 Mile Reef
6:50
Ban­nis­ter Landy Mir­a­cle Mile 1954
1:38
Roger Ban­nis­ter breaks the four minute mile
5:28
Kenny Roberts and the Indy Mile (2009)
69:28
The Last Mile
0:59
Mit­subishi Lancer Evo­lu­tion ARS (1/4 mile 9.734 sec.; 1 mile 23.911 sec.)
5:09
The Green Mile Sound­track - Cof­fey On The Mile


  • Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev speaks at a meeting with activists of the United Russia party in Kazan, 720 km (450 miles) east of Moscow
    AP / RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service
  • Winter Hill from Blackrod. The mast can be seen for many miles around. Winter Hill is a hill on the border of the boroughs of Chorley, Blackburn with Darwen and Bolton, in North West England
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  • The main stage at Bloodstock Open Air annual festival of heavy metal music, at Catton Hall in Walton-on-Trent, 7 miles south-west of Burton
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  • Quadruple track section of line at Roade cutting in Northampton shire. The main spine of the WCML is quadruple track almost all of the way from London to Crewe (where the line diverges into sections to Manchester, North Wales, Liverpool, and Scotland) except for a 7+1⁄2-mile (12 km) section of triple track between Brinklow Junction (north of Rugby) and Attleborough South Junction (south of Nuneaton) on the Trent Valley Line
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  • Rushall bottom lock in distance. The Rushall Canal is a straight, 2.75-mile (4.43 km), narrow canal suitable for boats which are 7 feet (2.1 m) wide, forming part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) on the eastern side of Walsall, West Midlands, England.
    Creative Commons / Oosoom
  • School Lane in Hopwas is a village in Staffordshire, England. It lies just over 2 miles (3 km) west of Tamworth and 5 miles (8 km) east of Lichfield. It is situated where the A51 road crosses both the River Tame and the Coventry Canal.
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  • Gates of College Hall, RAF Cranwell. Just over one mile to the west of the village is Royal Air Force College Cranwell, and RAF Cranwell with its two associated airfields.
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  • The Bybrook at Box, Wiltshire, England, also known as the By Brook is a tributary of the Bristol Avon, some 12 miles (19 km) long. The sources are the Burton Brook and the Broadmead Brook, which rise in South Gloucestershire at Tormarton and Cold Ashton respectively.
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  • Deacon Brodie on Edinburgh's Royal Mile
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  • Jammu and kashmir liberation front Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik greets with Kashmiri Hindu devotees at the Kheer Bhawani Temple at Tulla Mulla Ganderbal, some 28 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 May 2012.
    WN / Imran Nissar
  • Jammu and kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah greets with Kashmiri Hindu devotees at the Kheer Bhawani Temple at Tulla Mulla Ganderbal, some 28 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 May 2012. Thousands of Hindu devotees attended the prayers in the historic Kheer Bhavani Temple dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kheer Bhavani.
    WN / Imran Nissar
  • Jammu and kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah greets with Kashmiri Hindu devotees at the Kheer Bhawani Temple at Tulla Mulla Ganderbal, some 28 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 May 2012. Thousands of Hindu devotees attended the prayers in the historic Kheer Bhavani Temple dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kheer Bhavani.
    WN / Imran Nissar
  • Jammu and kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah greets with Kashmiri Hindu devotees at the Kheer Bhawani Temple at Tulla Mulla Ganderbal, some 28 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 May 2012.
    WN / Imran Nissar
  • Kashmiri Hindu devotees light oil lamps as they pray at the Kheer Bhawani Temple at Tulla Mulla Ganderbal, some 28 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 May 2012.
    WN / Imran Nissar
  • Kashmiri Hindu devotees pray at the Kheer Bhawani Temple at Tulla Mulla Ganderbal, some 28 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 May 2012.
    WN / Imran Nissar
  • Kashmiri Hindu devotees pray at the Kheer Bhawani Temple at Tulla Mulla Ganderbal, some 28 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 May 2012.
    WN / Imran Nissar
  • Kashmiri Hindu devotees pray at the Kheer Bhawani Temple at Tulla Mulla Ganderbal, some 28 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 May 2012.
    WN / Imran Nissar
  • Kashmiri Hindu devotees pray at the Kheer Bhawani Temple at Tulla Mulla Ganderbal, some 28 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 May 2012.
    WN / Imran Nissar
  • Kashmiri Hindu devotees pray at the Kheer Bhawani Temple at Tulla Mulla Ganderbal, some 28 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 May 2012.
    WN / Imran Nissar
  • Kashmiri Hindu devotees pray at the Kheer Bhawani Temple at Tulla Mulla Ganderbal, some 28 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 May 2012.
    WN / Imran Nissar
  • Kashmiri Hindu devotees pray at the Kheer Bhawani Temple at Tulla Mulla Ganderbal, some 28 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 May 2012.
    WN / Imran Nissar
  • Kashmiri Hindu devotees pray at the Kheer Bhawani Temple at Tulla Mulla Ganderbal, some 28 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 May 2012. Thousands of Hindu devotees attended the prayers in the historic Kheer Bhavani Temple dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kheer Bhavani.
    WN / Imran Nissar
  • Kashmiri Hindu devotees pray at the Kheer Bhawani Temple at Tulla Mulla Ganderbal, some 28 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 29 May 2012. Thousands of Hindu devotees attended the prayers in the historic Kheer Bhavani Temple dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kheer Bhavani.
    WN / Imran Nissar
  • The cramped tenements off the Royal Mile were once home to most of Edinburgh's population.
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  • Bob Marley Epiphone guitar at his birthplace in Nine Mile, Jamaica.
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  • The Bob Marley House in Nine Mile is a home that he shared with his mother during his youth
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  • Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi, casts his vote inside a polling station, in Zakazik 80 Kilometers (50 miles) north of Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday,
    AP / Ahmed Gomaa
  • The beach as seen from the Atlantic Ocean.Smathers Beach is the largest public beach in Key West, Florida, United States. It is approximately a half mile long.
    Creative Commons / Marc Averette
  • Jerusalem - the zero mile of Israel in the Jaffa Gate plaza. By the Roman times and Byzantion (Byzantic province), and after that stood a Roman triumph in the plaza of Damascus Gate in the Old city of Jerusalem that measure the kilometers to other cities - he showing in the Madaba Map. the triumph was demolished after the Roman times. the arabs called the Damascus Gate by the name:
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  • Boat houses along the Cleeve side. The reach is only just over half a mile long. The Cleeve side of the river is occupied by large gardens stretching down the hillside with several boat-houses on the river.
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10 Jun 2012
BJP president Nitin Gadkari has told prime minister Manmohan Singh that his party is willing to go the extra mile to support the government in its effort to revive the economy in these tough times....

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10 Jun 2012
Africa will have the world's fastest-growing economy during the next five years of any continent, according to the International Monetary Fund. Its forecasts also show that seven of the world's 10...

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The Australian authorities say they are seeking consular access to an Australian lawyer held in Libya after trying to meet Saif al-Islam, son of the late leader Muammar Gaddafi. Defence lawyer Melinda...

Scoop Monday, 11 June 2012, 11:26 am Press Release: Professional Public Relations NZ Ltd News release, 11 June 2012 Double the Skywards Miles Offer Skywards members will receive double the Miles for First and Business Class travel booked in June Skywards, the frequent flyer programme of Emirates, brings...(size: 2.5Kb)
Colorado Springs Gazette Pl Div Name City Chip time 1 Overal Lauren Kleppin Manitou Springs 1:03:03 2 Overal Kelly Ramirez Fort Collins 1:08:52 3 Overal Susie G Dyck Ankeny IA 1:09:25 4 Overal Rachael Cuellar Albuquerque NM 1:10:16 5 Overal Rochelle A Persson Colorado Spgs 1:10:41 6 Overal Eva M Hagen Colorado Spgs 1:10:58...(size: 24.9Kb)
Colorado Springs Gazette 420 44 M 45-49 Robert R Linscheer Colorado Spgs 1:31:43 421 45 M 45-49 Roger Bohnhoff Littleton CO 1:31:45 422 83 M 35-39 Michael G Hunsberger Colorado Spgs 1:31:47 423 43 M 50-54 Mitch Greening Divide CO 1:31:50 424 46 M 45-49 Michael Boice Colorado Spgs 1:31:59 425 4 M 1-14 Marshall Riddles...(size: 21.9Kb)
Colorado Springs Gazette Pl Div Name City Chip Time 1 Overal Teklu Deneke Flagstaff AZ 54:00:00 2 Overal Benard Langat Santa Fe NM 54:14:00 3 Overal Ryan Hafer Colorado Spgs 54:25:00 4 Overal Mario Macias Alamosa CO 54:41:00 5 Overal Jared Abuya Colorado Spgs 55:11:00 6 Overal Matt C Levassiur Alamosa CO 55:26:00 7 Overal...(size: 24.3Kb)
Colorado Springs Gazette 424 64 F 35-39 Michelle M Dougherty Monument CO 1:46:08 425 78 F 25-29 Jessica D Reyes Colorado Spgs 1:46:09 426 19 F 55-59 Barbara A Good Colorado Spgs 1:46:11 427 76 F 40-44 Alex Medina Superior CO 1:46:12 428 79 F 25-29 Nikki Richardson Colorado Spgs 1:46:12 429 65 F 35-39 Krista Enoch Colorado...(size: 13.9Kb)
The Examiner Kelly Michelle, owner of Tee Pee Totem in Velma, expressed her for regrets on Saturday for hiring Miles Bench, from Davis. Bench was arrested for the murder of 16 year old Braylee Rae Henry. She was murdered on June 6th. KSWO Channel 7 News in Lawton is also reporting that Miles Bench only worked at...(size: 7.0Kb)
CBC The Transportation Safety Board is investigating after a small plane crashed into the parking lot of a restaurant in 100 Mile House, B.C., on Saturday. Witnesses say the plane crashed shortly after takeoff...(size: 1.4Kb)
The Daily Mail After cycling 63 miles through the night for charity, Princess Eugenie must have been keen for a lie-down. But her mother was not going to let her get away without a hug. Beaming with pride, the Duchess of York embraced her exhausted daughter at the end of her seven-hour ride. And at the risk of...(size: 11.2Kb)
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A mile is a unit of length, most commonly 5,280 feet (1,760 yards, or about 1,609 metres). The mile of 5,280 feet is sometimes called the ''statute mile'' or ''land mile'' to distinguish it from the ''nautical mile'' (1,852 metres, about 6,076.1 feet). There have also been many historical miles and similar units in other systems that may be translated into English as miles; they have varied in length from 1 to 15 kilometres.

The exact length of the land mile varied slightly among English-speaking countries until an international agreement in 1959 established the yard as exactly 0.9144 metres, giving a mile of exactly 1,609.344 metres. The United States adopted this international mile for most purposes, but retained the pre-1959 mile for some land-survey data, terming it the ''US survey mile''. In the US, ''statute mile'' formally refers to the survey mile, about 3.219 mm (⅛ inch) longer than the international mile (the international mile is exactly 0.0002% less than the US survey mile).

Use of the mile as a unit of measurement is now largely confined to the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada

Etymology[link]

The word ''mile'' originally derives from the Old English word ''mīl'' which in turn was ultimately derived from the Latin word ''millia'' meaning "thousand". The English mile is derived from the Latin ''mille passuum'' (one thousand paces) but in other countries the word "mile" (''meile'' in German, ''mijl'' in Dutch) was derived from the Latin ''miliarium spatium'' (one thousand "intervals").

Roman mile [link]

The Romans were first to use the unit of long distance '''' (literally "a thousand paces" in Latin, where each pace was two steps). It denoted a distance of 1,000 paces or 5,000 Roman feet, and is estimated to be about 1,479 metres (1,617 yards). This unit, now known as the ''Roman mile'', spread throughout the Roman Empire, often with modifications to fit local systems of measurements.

Historical miles in the Arabic world and Europe[link]

The Arab mile (or Arabic mile) was a unit of length used by medieval Muslim geographers. Its precise length is uncertain, but is believed to be around 1925 metres. The Danish '''' (traditional) was 24,000 Danish feet or 7532.5 metres. Sometimes it was interpreted as exactly 7.5 kilometres. It is the same as the north German '''' (below). The '''' was a traditional unit in German-speaking countries. It was 24,000 German feet; the SI equivalent was 7586 metres in Austria or 7532.5 metres in northern Germany. There was a version known as the '''', which was 4 Admiralty nautical miles, 7,412.7 metres, or 1/15 of a degree of latitude. The Hungarian mile '''' was the traditional unit in Hungary, equal to 8353,6 m (old times sometimes varied between 8937,4 m and 8379,0 m) In Norway and Sweden, a mil is a unit of length equal to 10 kilometres and commonly used in everyday language. However in more formal situations, such as on road signs and when there is risk of confusion with English miles, kilometres are used instead. The traditional Swedish '''' spanned the range from 6000-14,485 metres, depending on province. It was however standardized in 1649 to 36,000 Swedish feet, or 10.687 km. The Norwegian '''' was 11.298 kilometres. When the metric system was introduced in the Norwegian-Swedish union in 1889, it standardized the '''' to exactly 10 kilometres. Mil is still commonly used when measuring fuel consumption in vehicles; e.g., 0.5 litre per mil. The Portuguese ''milha'' was a unit of length used in Portugal and Brazil, before the adoption of the metric system. It was equal to 2087.3 metres. The Russian was a traditional Russian unit of distance, equal to 7 ''verst'', or 7.468 km. The '''' (Croatian mile) is 11,130 metres = 11.13 km: the length of an arc of the equator subtended by 1/10 of a degree, first used by Jesuit Stjepan Glavač on a map from 1673. The '''' (also called '''') (mile of Croatian Ban, Croatian mile) was 7586 metres = 7.586 kilometres, or 24,000 feet (the same as the Austrian mile).

Historical miles in Britain and Ireland [link]

The statute mile (1593) of Elizabeth I was not the only definition of the mile in Britain and Ireland. Perhaps the earliest tables of English linear measures, Arnold's ''Customs of London'' (c. 1500) indicates a mile consisted of 8 furlongs, each of 625 feet, for a total of 5000 feet (1666⅔ yards, 0.947 statute miles, 1524 metres): this is the same definition of the mile in terms of feet as used by the Romans. The "old English" mile of medieval and early modern times appears to have measured about 1.3 statute miles (1.9 km). The 17th century cartographer, Robert Morden, had multiple scales on his maps—for example, his map of Hampshire showed two different miles that had a ratio of and his map of Dorset had three scales with a ratio of . In both cases, the smallest mile appears to be the statute mile.

Scots mile [link]

The Royal Mile in Edinburgh, i.e., from the Castle down to Holyrood Abbey, is approximately the same length as the Scots mile. English miles were imposed in 1824 by an Act of Parliament.

Equivalent to:

  • Scottish measures: 320 falls; or 8 Scots furlongs
  • Metric system: 1807 metres
  • Imperial system: 1,976 yards (about 1.12 miles)
  • Robert Burns spoke of Scots miles in the first verse of ''Tam O' Shanter''

    :"While we sit bousing at the nappy, :An' getting fou and unco happy, :We think na on the lang Scots miles, :The mosses, waters, slaps and stiles, :That lie between us and our hame, :Where sits our sulky, sullen dame, :Gathering her brows like gathering storm, :Nursing her wrath to keep it warm."

    The Scots mile was longer than the English mile, but varied in length from place to place. It was formally abolished by an Act of the Parliament of Scotland in 1685, and again by the Treaty of Union with England in 1707, but continued in use as a customary unit during the 18th century. It was obsolete by the time of its final abolition by the Weights and Measures Act 1824. An estimate of its length can be made from other Scots units: in Scots, the rod was usually called the ''fall'' or ''faw'', and was equal to six ells of 37 inches. As there are 320 rods in a mile and 1.0016 Imperial inches in a Scots inch, this would make the Scots mile equal to 5,920 Scots feet (1,976.5 imperial yards, 1.12 statute miles). Other estimates are similar.

    Irish mile [link]

    The Irish mile was longer still. In Elizabethan times, four Irish miles was often equated to five English, though whether the statute mile or the "old English" mile is unclear. By the seventeenth century, it was 2,240 yards (6,720 feet, 1.27 statute miles, 2,048 metres). Again, the difference arose from a different length of the rod in Ireland (usually called the ''perch'' locally): 21 feet as opposed to 16½ feet in England.

    From 1774, through the 1801 union with Britain, until the 1820s, the grand juries of 25 Irish counties commissioned surveyed maps at scales of one or two inches per Irish mile. Scottish engineer William Bald's County Mayo maps of 1809–30 were drawn in English miles and rescaled to Irish miles for printing. The HowthDublin Post Office extension of the London–Holyhead turnpike engineered by Thomas Telford had mileposts in English miles. Although legally abolished by the Weights and Measures Act 1824, the Irish mile was used till 1856 by the Irish Post Office. The Ordnance Survey of Ireland, from its establishment in 1824, used English miles.

    In 1894, Alfred Austin complained after visiting Ireland that "the Irish mile is a fine source of confusion when distances are computed. In one county a mile means a statute mile, in another it means an Irish mile". When the Oxford English Dictionary definition of "mile" was published in 1906, it described the Irish mile as "still in rustic use". A 1902 guide says regarding milestones, "Counties Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Antrim, Down, and Armagh use English, but Donegal Irish Miles; the other counties either have both, or only one or two roads have Irish". Variation in signage persisted till the publication of standardised road traffic regulations by the Irish Free State in 1926. In 1937, a man prosecuted for driving outside the 15-mile limit of his licence offered the unsuccessful defence that, since the state was independent, the limit ought to use Irish miles, "just as no one would ever think of selling land other than as Irish acres". A 1965 proposal by two TDs to replace statute miles with Irish miles in a clause of the Road Transport Act was rejected. The term is now obsolete as a specific measure, though an "Irish mile" colloquially is a long but vague distance akin to a "country mile".

    == Statute mile == The ''statute mile'' was so-named because it was defined by an English Act of Parliament in 1593, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The statute states: "A Mile ſhall contain eight Furlongs, every Furlong forty Poles, and every Pole ſixteen Foot and a half." (35 Eliz. cap. 6.) It was thus 1760 yards (5280 feet, about 1609 metres). For surveying, the statute mile is divided into eight furlongs; each furlong into ten chains; each chain into four rods (also known as ''poles'' or ''perches''); and each rod into 25 links. This makes the rod equal to 5½ yards or 16½ feet in both Imperial and US usage.

    The exact conversion of the mile to SI units depends on which definition of the yard is used. Different English-speaking countries maintained independent physical standards for the yard that were found to differ by small, but measurable, amounts and even to slowly shorten in length. The US redefined the US yard in 1893, but this resulted in US and Imperial measures of distance having very slightly different lengths. The difference was resolved in 1959 with the definition of the international yard in terms of the metre by Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and the US. The "international mile" of 1760 international yards is exactly 1609.344 metres.

    The difference from the previous standards was 2 ppm, or about 3.2 millimetres (⅛ inch) per mile. The US standard was slightly longer and the old Imperial standards had been slightly shorter than the international mile. When the international mile was introduced in English-speaking countries, the basic geodetic datum in North America was the North American Datum of 1927 (NAD27). This had been constructed by triangulation based on the definition of the foot in the Mendenhall Order of 1893, with 1 foot =  metres and the definition was retained for data derived from NAD27, but renamed the ''US survey foot'' to distinguish it from the international foot.

    The ''US survey mile'' is 5280 survey feet, or about 1609.347 218 694 metres. In the US, ''statute mile'' formally refers to the survey mile, but for most purposes, the difference between the survey mile and the international mile is insignificant—one international mile is exactly 0.999 998 of a US survey mile—so ''statute mile'' can be used for either. But in some cases, such as in the US State Plane Coordinate Systems (SPCSs), which can stretch over hundreds of miles, the accumulated difference ''can be'' significant, so it is important to note that the reference is to the US survey mile.

    The North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), which replaced the NAD27, is defined in metres. State Plane Coordinate Systems were then updated, but the National Geodetic Survey left individual states to decide which (if any) definition of the foot they would use. All State Plane Coordinate Systems are defined in metres, and 42 of the 50 states only use the metre-based State Plane Coordinate Systems. However, eight states also have State Plane Coordinate Systems defined in feet, seven of them in US Survey feet and one in international feet. State legislation in the US is important for determining which conversion factor from the metric datum is to be used for land surveying and real estate transactions, even though the difference (2 ppm) is hardly significant, given the precision of normal surveying measurements over short distances (usually much less than a mile). Twenty-four states have legislated that surveying measures be based on the US survey foot, eight have legislated that they be based on the international foot, and eighteen have not specified which conversion factor to use.

    The old Imperial value of the yard was used in converting measurements to metric values in India in a 1976 Act of the Indian Parliament. However, The current National Topographic Database of the Survey of India is based on the metric WGS-84 datum, which is also used by the Global Positioning System.

    Metric mile [link]

    The term metric mile is used in sports such as track and field athletics and speed skating to denote a distance of 1500 metres (about 4921 ft). In United States high school competition, the term is sometimes used for a race of 1,600 metres (about 5249 ft).

    Nautical mile [link]

    The ''nautical mile'' was originally defined as one minute of arc along a meridian of the Earth. Navigators use dividers to step off the distance between two points on the navigational chart, then place the open dividers against the minutes-of-latitude scale at the edge of the chart, and read off the distance in nautical miles. The Earth is not perfectly spherical but an oblate spheroid, so the length of a minute of latitude increases by 1% from the equator to the poles. Using the WGS84 ellipsoid, the commonly accepted Earth model for many purposes today, one minute of latitude at the WGS84 equator is 6,046 feet and at the poles is 6,107.5 feet. The average is about 6,076 feet (about 1,852 metres or 1.15 statute miles).

    In the United States the nautical mile was defined in the 19th century as 6,080.2 feet (1,853.249 m), whereas in the United Kingdom, the ''Admiralty nautical mile'' was defined as 6,080 feet (1,853.184 m) and was about one minute of latitude in the latitudes of the south of the UK. Other nations had different definitions of the nautical mile, but it is now internationally defined to be exactly 1,852 metres.

    Related nautical units [link]

    The nautical mile per hour is known as the knot. Nautical miles and knots are almost universally used for aeronautical and maritime navigation, because of their relationship with degrees and minutes of latitude and the convenience of using the latitude scale on a map for distance measuring.

    The data mile is used in radar-related subjects and is equal to 6,000 feet (1.8288 kilometres). The radar mile is a unit of time (in the same way that the light year is a unit of distance), equal to the time required for a radar pulse to travel a distance of two miles (one mile each way). Thus, the radar statute mile is 10.8 μs and the radar nautical mile is 12.4 μs.

    Abbreviation and symbol [link]

    There have been several abbreviations for mile (with and without trailing period): mi, ml, m, M. In the United States, the National Institute of Standards and Technology now uses and recommends mi, which avoids confusion with metres, millilitres, etc., but in everyday usage (at least in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada), units such as miles per hour and miles per gallon are almost always abbreviated as mph or mpg (rather than mi/h or mi/gal).

    Grid system[link]

    Cities in the continental United States often have streets laid out by miles. Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Miami, are several examples. Typically the largest streets are about a mile apart, with others at half-mile and quarter-mile intervals. In the Manhattan borough of New York City "streets" are close to 20 per mile, while the major numbered "avenues" are about six per mile. (Centerline to centerline, 42nd St to 22nd St is supposed to be 5250 feet while 42nd to 62nd is supposed to be 5276 ft 8 in.)

    Idioms [link]

    Even in English-speaking countries that have moved from the Imperial to the metric system (for example, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand), the mile is still used in a variety of idioms. These include:
  • A ''country mile'' is used colloquially to denote a very long distance.
  • ''"A miss is as good as a mile"'' (failure by a narrow margin is no better than any other failure)
  • ''"Give him an inch and he'll take a mile"'' - a corruption of ''"Give him an inch and he'll take an ell"'' (the person in question will become greedy if shown generosity)
  • ''"Missed by a mile"'' (missed by a wide margin)
  • ''"Talk a mile a minute"'' (speak at a rapid rate)
  • ''"To go the extra mile"'' (to put in extra effort)
  • ''"Miles away"'' (lost in thought, or daydreaming)
  • ''"Milestone"'' (an event indicating significant progress)
  • See also [link]

  • Anthropic units
  • Data mile
  • Fibonacci sequence for miles converting to kilometres
  • Food miles
  • Four-minute mile
  • Geographical mile
  • Kilometre
  • Mile run
  • Section lines
  • Square mile
  • United States customary units
  • Notes [link]

    References [link]

  • ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'' (3rd ed.) (1992). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
  • ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'' (4th ed.) (2006). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 978-0-618-70172-8.
  • Astin. V. and H. Arnold Karo. (1959). ''Refinement of values for the yard and the pound,'' Washington DC: National Bureau of Standards, republished on National Geodetic Survey web site and the Federal Register (Doc. 59-5442, Filed, June 30, 1959, 8:45 a.m.)
  • Barbrow, Louis E. and Lewis V. Judson (1976). ''Weights and Measures Standards of the United States – A Brief History''. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  • Butcher, Tina; et al. ed. (2007). ''NIST Handbook 44: Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices.'' Appendix C, p. C-13.
  • Klein, Herbert Arthur (1974, corrected 1988). ''The Science of Measurement: A Historical Survey''. New York: Dover. (previously published by Simon & Schuster under the title ''The World of Measurements: Masterpieces, Mysteries and Muddles of Metrology'')
  • Maloney, Elbert S. (1978). ''Dutton's Navigation and Piloting''. 13th Ed. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
  • Rowlett, Russ (2005). ''How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement''. Faculty member's web page at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved November 10, 2007.
  • Thompson, Ambler, and Taylor, Barry. (2008). ''Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI)'' (PDF format; requires Adobe Reader. (Special Publication 811). Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  • External links [link]

  • NIST General Tables of Units of Measurement
  • Category:Units of length Category:Imperial units Category:Customary units in the United States Category:Ancient Roman geography Category:Surveying Category:Roman Inventions Category:Scottish weights and measures

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    Hicham El Guerrouj ''"King of the Mile"'' (Moroccan Arabic: , born September 14, 1974, Berkane) is a Moroccan former middle distance runner. He is the current holder of the 1500 metres, mile and outdoor 2000 metres world records, as well as a double Olympic gold medalist. From about 1995 until his retirement from serious competition following the 2004 Olympics, he was the dominant middle distance runner of his day.

    Early career[link]

    Hicham El Guerrouj's first international triumph was in 1992 at age 18, when he was 3rd in the 5000 metres of the 1992 Junior World Championships in Seoul, behind Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia.

    In 1994, he was a member of the Moroccan team in the 1994 IAAF World Road Relay Championships, which won the race in world record time.

    El Guerrouj rose to international prominence in the mid-1990s with near-record times in the 1500 metres and mile. At the age of 20 he finished second in the 1500 metres at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg. In 1996 after setting a new personal best over 1500 metres in 3:29.59 in Stockholm, he was considered one of the favourites for the Olympic gold.

    1996 Atlanta Olympics - 1999 season[link]

    El Guerrouj competed in his first Olympic Games in 1996 at Atlanta. Running the 1500 meters final, as he was moving into position to challenge for the lead, he fell with 400 m to go and finished last in 12th place. He had been expected to challenge the world record holder and three-time World champion, Noureddine Morceli.

    One month later, at the Grand Prix final in Milan, El Guerrouj became the first runner to defeat Morceli over 1500 m in four years. In the following years, El Guerrouj became the only middle distance runner to win four consecutive world titles in 1997, 1999, 2001, and 2003

    El Guerrouj set two world indoor records at the start of the 1997 season, starting with a 1500 m record of 3:31.18 at the Sparkassen Cup and setting a new indoor best of 3:48.45 in the mile run at the Indoor Flanders meeting a few weeks later. In 1998 in Rome, El Guerrouj broke Morceli's 1500 m world record (3:27.37) with a time of 3:26.00.

    In 1999, also in Rome, El Guerrouj broke the world record in the mile set by Noureddine Morceli in 1993, with a time of 3:43.13. Noah Ngeny of Kenya, who ran second, was also under the previous world record with a time of 3:43.40. This was the first time in over 40 years that two men had bettered the mile world record in the same race.

    Later that season he set a new world record over 2000 m in Berlin at 4:44.79, bettering the previous mark set by Morceli by more than three seconds. He also ran the second fastest 3000 m ever in Brussels.

    2000 Sydney Olympics - 2003 season[link]

    At the Sydney Olympics, El Guerrouj, finished second in the 1500 metres, behind Noah Ngeny, a Kenyan runner who ran as El Guerrouj's pacemaker when El Guerrouj ran his 1500 m world record in Rome in 1998.

    El Guerrouj defended his 1500 m title in the 2001 and 2003 World Championships and came close to breaking his own 1500 m record in Brussels in 2001 with a time of 3:26.12. He also won 3 consecutive IAAF Golden League prizes in 2001, 2002 and 2003. He was the only middle distance athlete to produce the winning streak necessary to be entitled for a share of the jackpot of 50 kilograms (1,608 troy ounces) of gold (2000–2002) or USD 1 million (1998–1999, 2003–present). He remains the only athlete to have won it three times in a row.

    In 2003, El Guerrouj set a personal best of 12:50.24 in the 5000 metres. Later in the year, at the World Track & Field Championships, he finished a close second to Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge in the 5000 meters, adding a silver to the gold he had previously won in the 1500 meters.

    2004 Athens Olympics and retirement[link]

    After a relatively poor start to the 2004 season that included slow times and an 8th place finish in a 1500 meter race in Rome, El Guerrouj won the gold medal in both the 1500 metres and 5000 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

    Only 20 days before the Olympic final, 2000 Olympic bronze medalist Bernard Lagat ran the fastest 1500 m in 2004 (3:27.40), narrowly defeating El Guerrouj (3:27.64) at the Weltklasse Zürich meet on August 6. However, on August 24, El Guerrouj beat Lagat by 0.12 seconds in the Olympic 1500 m final, winning the gold medal. In a thrilling finale, entering the home straight El Guerrouj led, only to be overtaken by Lagat- and then El Guerrouj re-took the lead only a few strides from the line.

    Four days later El Guerrouj won the 5,000 m final with a time of 13:14.39 preventing Kenenisa Bekele from achieving the 5000 m/10000 m distance double, last achieved by Ethiopian Miruts Yifter in 1980 Moscow Olympics.

    El Guerrouj became then the first man in 80 years to win both 1500 m and 5000 m races in the same Olympics, last achieved by the "Flying Finn" Paavo Nurmi in 1924.

    After the Olympics, El Guerrouj never again competed internationally, and announced his retirement on May 22, 2006.

    Awards and honours[link]

    His sporting career is marked by numerous recognitions such as the award to humanitarian effort from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), which he received in 1996. He is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. El Guerrouj was named IAAF World Athlete of the Year in 2001, 2002 and 2003 after remaining unbeaten in more than 20 races, becoming the first man to win the award in consecutive years. He was also named best athlete of the year by the athletics journal ''Track and Field News'' in 2002. In 2003, he was elected as a member of the IAAF Athletes Committee.

    On September 7, 2004, El Guerrouj was decorated with the "Cordon de Commandeur" by King Mohammed VI of Morocco. In the same year, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Awards.

    He is a member of the International Olympic Committee Athletes' Commission.

    Hicham El Guerrouj is today an Ambassador for Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization, as well as a member of its ‘Champions for Peace’ club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport.

    Personal bests[link]

    The following table includes El Guerrouj's personal best times as published by the IAAF:

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    Distance ! Date ! Location
    800 meters 1:47.18 1995-02-06
    1000 meters | 1995-07-12 Nice
    1500 meters WR 3:26.00 || 1998-07-14 Rome
    Mile run world record progressionMile WR 3:43.13 || 1999-07-07 Rome
    2000 meters WR 4:44.79 || 1999-09-07 Berlin
    3000 meters 7:23.09 || 1999-09-03 Brussels
    5000 meters 12:50.24 || 2003-03-12 Ostrava

    Titles and major results[link]

    (1500 meters unless indicated)
    !Year (Age he turned in this year) !Competition !Place !Date !Rank !Timing !Notes
    1995 (21) World Championship Indoor Barcelona 1995 March 11 3:44.54
    Gothenburg 1995 August 13 3:35.28 Noureddine Morceli(1)
    1996 (22) Atlanta 1996 August 3 3:40.75 (fell down)
    1997 (23) Grand Prix Stuttgart 1997 February 2 3:31.18 WR 1500 indoor
    Grand Prix Gand 1997 February 12 3:48.45 (mile) WR mile indoor
    World Championship Indoor Paris 1997 March 8 3:35.31
    Athens 1997 August 6 3:35.83 Fermín Cacho(2)
    1998 (24) Grand Prix Rome 1998 July 14 3:26.00 WR 1500 meters
    1999 (25) Grand Prix Rome 1999 July 7 3:43.13 (mile) WR mile; Noah Ngeny(2)
    Seville 1999 August 24 3:27.65 CR, Noah Ngeny(2)
    Grand Prix Final Berlin 1999 September 7 4:44.79 (2000 meters) WR 2000 meters
    2000 (26) Sydney 2000 September 29 3:32.32 Noah Ngeny(1)
    2001 (27) World Championship Indoor Lisbon 2001 March 11 7:37.74 (3000 meters)
    Edmonton 2001 August 5 3:30.68 Bernard Lagat(2)
    2003 (29) Paris 2003 July 27 3:31.77 Mehdi Baala(2)
    2003 August 31 12:52.83 (5000 meters) Eliud Kipchoge(1)
    2004 (30) Athens 2004 August 24 3:34.18 Bernard Lagat(2)
    2004 August 28 13:14.39 (5000 meters) Kenenisa Bekele(2)

    See also[link]

  • World record progression for the mile run
  • Fédération Royale Marocaine d’Athlétisme
  • Saïd Aouita
  • References and notes[link]

    External links[link]

  • Video of Hicham El Guerrouj breaking the mile world record
  • El Guerrouj diary at IAAF
  • Noureddine Morceli|title=Men's 1500 m World Record Holder|years=July 14, 1998 — |after=Incumbent}} Noureddine Morceli|title=Men's Mile World Record Holder|years=July 7, 1999 – |after=Incumbent}} Haile Gebrselassie|after= Virgilijus Alekna|years=1999}} Virgilijus Alekna|after= Kenenisa Bekele|years=2001 – 2003}} Haile Gebrselassie|title=Men's 3000 m Best Year Performance|years=1999|after= Ali Saïdi-Sief}} Benjamin Limo|title=Men's 3000 m Best Year Performance|years=2003|after= Eliud Kipchoge}} Noureddine Morceli|after= Bernard Lagat|years=1996 – 2003}}

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    nameSir Roger Bannister
    sportRunning
    event800m,1500m,1 mile.
    birth dateMarch 23, 1929
    birth placeHarrow, England
    height6'2" (187 cm)
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    Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, CBE (born 23 March 1929) is an English former athlete best known for running the first mile in less than 4 minutes. Bannister became a distinguished neurologist and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, before retiring in 2001.

    Sir Roger was the inaugural recipient of the ''Sports Illustrated'' Sportsman of the Year award in January 1955 (1954 Sportsman of the Year).

    Early life [link]

    Roger Bannister was born in Harrow, England. He went to Vaughan Primary school in Harrow before going on to be educated at the City of Bath Boys' School, University College School, London, Exeter College and Merton College, Oxford, and at St Mary's Hospital Medical School (now part of Imperial College London).

    Early running career[link]

    Bannister was inspired by miler Sydney Wooderson's remarkable comeback in 1945. Eight years after setting the mile record and seeing it surpassed during the war years by the great Swedish runners Arne Andersson and Gunder Hägg, Wooderson regained his old form and challenged Andersson over the distance in several races. Wooderson lost to Andersson but set a British record of 4:04.2 in Göteborg on 9 September.

    Like Wooderson, Bannister would ultimately set a mile record, see it broken, and then set a new personal best slower than the new record.

    Bannister started his running career at Oxford in the autumn of 1946 at the age of 17. He had never worn running spikes previously or run on a track. His training was light, even compared to the standards of the day, but he showed promise in running a mile in 1947 in 4:24.6 on only three weekly half-hour training sessions.

    He was selected as an Olympic ''"possible"'' in 1948 but declined as he felt he was not ready to compete at that level. However, he was further inspired to become a great miler by watching the 1948 Olympics. He set his training goals on the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki.

    In 1949, he improved in the 880 yards to 1:52.7 and won several mile races in 4:11. Then, after a period of six weeks with no training, he came in third at White City in 4:14.2.

    The year 1950 saw more improvements as he finished a relatively slow 4:13 mile on 1 July with an impressive 57.5 last quarter. Then, he ran the AAA 880 in 1:52.1, losing to Arthur Wint, and then ran 1:50.7 for the 800 m at the European Championships on 26 August, placing third. Chastened by this lack of success, Bannister started to train harder and more seriously.

    His increased attention to training paid quick dividends, as he won a mile race in 4:09.9 on 30 December. Then in 1951 at the Penn Relays, Bannister broke away from the pack with a 56.7 final lap, finishing in 4:08.3. Then, in his biggest test to date, he won a mile race on 14 July in 4:07.8 at the AAA Championships at White City before 47,000 people. The time set a meet record and he defeated defending champion Bill Nankeville in the process.

    Bannister suffered defeat, however, when Yugoslavia's Andrija Otenhajmer, aware of Bannister's final-lap kick, took a 1500 m race in Belgrade 25 August out at near-record pace, forcing Bannister to close the gap by the bell lap. Otenhajmer won in 3:47.0, though Bannister set a personal best finishing second in 3:48.4. Bannister was no longer seen as invincible.

    The 1952 Olympics[link]

    Bannister avoided racing after the 1951 season until late in the spring of 1952, saving his energy for Helsinki and the Olympics. He ran an 880 on 28 May in 1:53.00, then a 4:10.6 mile time-trial on 7 June, proclaiming himself satisfied with the results. At the AAA championships, he skipped the mile and won the 880 in 1:51.5. Then, 10 days before the Olympic final, he ran a 3/4 mile time trial in 2:52.9, which gave him confidence that he was ready for the Olympics as he considered the time to be the equivalent of a four-minute mile.

    His confidence soon dissipated as it was announced there would be semifinals for the 1500 m at the Olympics, and he knew that this favoured runners who had much deeper training regimens than he did. When he ran his semifinal, Bannister finished fifth and thereby qualified for the final, but he felt ''"blown and unhappy."''

    The 1500 m final on 26 July would prove to be one of the more dramatic in Olympic history. The race was not decided until the final metres, Josy Barthel of Luxembourg prevailing in an Olympic-record 3:45.28 (3:45.1 by official hand-timing) with the next seven runners all under the old record. Bannister finished fourth, out of the medals, but set a British record of 3:46.30 (3:46.0) in the process.

    Bannister sets a new goal[link]

    After his failure at the 1952 Olympics, Bannister spent two months deciding whether to give up running. He set himself on a new goal: to be the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. Accordingly, he intensified his training and did hard intervals.

    On 2 May 1953, he made an attempt on the British record at Oxford. Paced by Chris Chataway, Bannister ran 4:03.6, shattering Wooderson's 1945 standard. ''"This race made me realize that the four-minute mile was not out of reach,"'' said Bannister.

    On 27 June, a mile race was inserted onto the programme of the Surrey schools athletic meeting. Australian runner Don Macmillan, ninth in the 1500 m at the 1952 Olympics, set a strong pace with 59.6 and 1:59.7 for two laps. He gave up after 2 laps, but Chris Brasher took up the pace. Brasher had jogged the race, allowing Bannister to lap him so he could be a fresh pace-setter. At 3/4 mile, Bannister was at 3:01.8, the record—and first sub-four-minute mile—in reach. But the effort fell short with a finish in 4:02.0, a time bettered by only Andersson and Hägg. British officials would not allow this performance to stand as a British record, which, Bannister felt in retrospect, was a good decision. ''"My feeling as I look back is one of great relief that I did not run a four-minute mile under such artificial circumstances,"'' he said.

    But other runners were making attempts at the four-minute barrier and coming close as well. American Wes Santee ran 4:02.4 on 5 June, the fourth-fastest mile ever. And at the end of the year, Australian John Landy ran 4:02.0.

    Then early in 1954, Landy made some more attempts at the distance. On 21 January, he ran 4:02.4 in Melbourne, then 4:02.6 on 23 February, and at the end of the Australian season on 19 April he ran 4:02.6 again.

    Bannister had been following Landy's attempts and was certain his Australian rival would succeed with each one. But knowing that Landy's season-closing attempt on 19 April would be his last until he travelled to Finland for another attempt, Bannister knew he had to make his attempt soon.

    The sub-4-minute mile [link]

    This historic event took place on 6 May 1954 during a meet between British AAA and Oxford University at Iffley Road Track in Oxford. It was watched by about 3,000 spectators. With winds up to 25 miles per hour (40 km/h) prior to the event, Bannister had said twice that he favoured not running, to conserve his energy and efforts to break the 4-minute barrier; he would try again at another meet. However, the winds dropped just before the race was scheduled to begin, and Bannister did run. Two other runners, Brasher and Chataway, provided pacing while completing the race. Both went on to establish their own track careers. The race was broadcast live by BBC Radio and commented on by Harold Abrahams, of ''Chariots of Fire'' fame.

    The stadium announcer for the race was Norris McWhirter, who went on to co-publish and co-edit the Guinness Book of Records. He excited the crowd by delaying the announcement of the time Bannister ran as long as possible:

    The roar of the crowd drowned out the rest of the announcement. Bannister's time was 3 min 59.4 sec.

    thumb|right|120px|50th anniversary of Bannister's four-minute mile, commemorated on a 2004 British fifty pence coin. The claim that a 4-minute mile was once thought to be impossible by ''informed'' observers was and is a widely propagated myth created by sportswriters and debunked by Bannister himself in his memoir, ''The Four Minute Mile'' (1955). The reason the myth took hold was that four minutes was a nice round number which was slightly better (1.4 seconds) than the world record for nine years, longer than it probably otherwise would have been because of the effect of World War II in interrupting athletic progress in the combatant countries. The Swedish runners Gunder Hägg and Arne Andersson, in a series of head-to-head races in the period 1942-45, had already lowered the world mile record by 5 seconds to the pre-Bannister record. (See Mile run world record progression.) What is still impressive to knowledgeable track fans is that Bannister ran a four-minute mile on very low-mileage training by modern standards.

    Just 46 days later on 21 June in Turku, Finland, Bannister's record was broken by his rival Landy with a time of 3 min 57.9 s, which the IAAF ratified as 3 min 58.0 s due to the rounding rules then in effect. On 7 August, at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, B.C., Bannister, running for England, competed against Landy for the first time in a race billed as ''"The Miracle Mile"''. They were the only two men in the world to have broken the 4-minute barrier, with Landy still holding the world record. Landy led for most of the race, building a lead of 10 yards in the third lap (of four), but was overtaken on the last bend, and Bannister won in 3 min 58.8 s, with Landy 0.8 s behind in 3 min 59.6 s. Bannister and Landy have both pointed out that the crucial moment of the race was that at the moment when Bannister decided to try to pass Landy, Landy looked over his left shoulder to gauge Bannister's position and Bannister burst past him on the right, never relinquishing the lead. A larger-than-life bronze sculpture of the two men at this moment was created by Vancouver sculptor Jack Harman in 1967 from a photograph by ''Vancouver Sun'' photographer Charlie Warner and stood for many years at the entrance to Empire Stadium; after the stadium was demolished the sculpture was moved a short distance away to the Hastings and Renfrew entrance of the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) fairgrounds. Regarding this sculpture, Landy quipped: "While Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt for looking back, I am probably the only one ever turned into bronze for looking back."

    Bannister went on that season to win the ''"metric mile"'', the 1,500 m, at the European Championships in Bern on 29 August, with a championship record in a time of 3 min 43.8 s. He then retired from athletics to concentrate on his work as a junior doctor and to pursue a career in neurology.

    Sports Council and knighthood[link]

    He later became the first Chairman of the Sports Council (now called Sport England) and was knighted for this service in 1975. Under his aegis, central and local government funding of sports centres and other sports facilities was rapidly increased, and he also initiated the first testing for use of anabolic steroids in sport.

    Legacy [link]

    On the 50th anniversary of running the sub-4-minute mile, Bannister was interviewed by the BBC's sports correspondent Rob Bonnet. At the conclusion of the interview, Bannister was asked whether he looked back on the sub-4-minute mile as the most important achievement of his life. Bannister replied to the effect that no, he rather saw his subsequent forty years of practising as a neurologist and some of the new procedures he introduced as being more significant. His major contribution in academic medicine was in the field of autonomic failure, an area of neurology focusing on illnesses characterised by certain automatic responses of the nervous system (for example, elevated heart rate when standing up) not occurring.

    For his efforts, Sir Roger Bannister was also made the inaugural recipient of the ''Sports Illustrated'' Sportsman of the Year award in 1955 (he was given the award as the 1954 Sportsman of the Year, but it was awarded in January 1955) and is one of the few non-Americans recognised by the American-published magazine as such.

    In 1984, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath.

    In a UK poll conducted by Channel 4 in 2002, the British public voted Bannister's historic sub-4-minute mile #13 in the list of the 100 Greatest Sporting Moments.

    Sir Roger Bannister is the subject of the ESPN movie ''"Four Minutes"'' (2005). This film is a dramatisation, its major departures from the factual record being the creation of a fictional character as Bannister's coach, who was actually Franz Stampfl, an Austrian, and secondly his meeting his wife, Moyra Jacobsson, in the early 1950s when in fact they met in London only a few months before the Miracle Mile itself took place.

    The 50th anniversary of Sir Roger's achievement was marked by a commemorative British 50-pence coin. The reverse of the coin shows the legs of a runner and a stopwatch (stopped at 3:59.4).

    Bannister, arguably the most famous record-setter in the mile, is also the man who held the record for the shortest period of time, at least since the IAAF started to ratify records.

    Display of memorabilia[link]

    In the gallery of Pembroke College dining hall there are three cabinets containing approximately 100 exhibits covering Bannister's athletic career and including some academic highlights.

    At St Mary's Hospital (London), Imperial College School of Medicine have named a lecture theatre after Dr Bannister, with the stopwatch used to time the race on display, stopped at 3:59. Sir Roger has also given his name to both the trophy presented to the winning team in the annual Imperial College School of Medicine vs Imperial College London athletics Varsity match, as well as the award giving to the graduating doctor of Imperial College School of Medicine who has achieved most in the sporting community.

    Quotations[link]

    The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
  • Roger Bannister on breaking the 4-minute mile (Cameron, 1993: 185): "No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed."
  • "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle--when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

    References[link]

  • ''The First Four Minutes: ESPN Classic Television Programme''.
  • ''The Four Minute Mile'' TV mini-series (1988), available on DVD.
  • Bannister, Roger (1955), ''The Four-Minute Mile''. Revised and enlarged 50th anniversary (of the race) edition, 2004, The Lyons Press.
  • Bascomb, Neal (2004), ''The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It''. ISBN 0-618-39112-6.
  • Cameron, Julia (1993), ''The Artist's Way''. Oxford, London: Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-34358-0.
  • Nelson, Cordner and Quercetani, Roberto (1985), ''The Milers'', Tafnews Press, 1985, ISBN 0-911521-15-1, pp. 181–215
  • Quercetani, R. L. (1964), ''A World History of Track and Field Athletics, 1864–1964'', Oxford University Press. (A history of the mile/1500 m. event.)
  • External links[link]

  • Roger Bannister and the Four-Minute Mile, original reports from ''The Times''.
  • Sir Roger Bannister is Patron of the Multiple System Atrophy Trust.
  • Freeman of London Borough of Harrow
  • Documents relating to Bannister in the Queen Square Archive
  • Gunder Hägg|title=Men's Mile World Record Holder|years=6 May – 21 June 1954|after= John Landy}}

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