Herm Caviness would really like to see someone run a sub-four-minute mile in Spokane, and he's doing his best to make it happen this weekend. Caviness, a legendary high school track coach, isn't ...

Faith Kipyegon, the 5-foot-2-inch, 97-pound “Smiling Destroyer,” is the world’s fastest woman in the mile and the 1,500 meters. The 31-year-old Kenyan dynamo will be atop the marquee at the upcoming ...

PARIS (AP) — Three-time Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon failed in her bid Thursday to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes. Kipyegon, the Olympic 1,500-meter gold medalist from ...

In 1954, Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes, a feat long considered impossible. Shortly afterward, Diane Leather achieved a similar breakthrough for women, ...

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