The Four Minute Mile

[first lines]

Roger Bannister:
Excuse me, do you know how I can join the athletics club?

Student:
Why would anyone want to join that lot?

[last lines]

Sandy Duncan:
We should perhaps remember this point in time when men and women would still compete to the utmost of their capacity. Not for glory, not for gold, but for the sheer joy of doing something as well or better than it has ever been done before.