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...scene. Milers come from everywhere. The last four world record holders, in order, have been a Yorkshireman, an Australian, a New Zealander and a Frenchman-and last week France's Michel Jazy found himself confronted with two new challengers who could hardly be more dissimilar. In Wanganui, New Zealand, East Germany's Jurgen May beat Kenya's Kipchoge Keino by a bare .3 sec. in the second fastest mile ever run: 3 min. 53.8 sec., just .2 sec. off the still unrecognized record that Jazy set last June...
...course, is more sophisticated. At Wanganui, his strategy was to let Keino tire while setting the pace, save his own strength for a final kick to the tape. He did precisely the same thing in a rematch last week at Auckland: dogging Keino's footsteps for most of the race, he turned it on in the last 20 yds. to win by 3 ft. in 3 min. 54.1 sec.-tying the listed world record held by New Zealand's own Peter Snell. Twice was too much for Keino. "I am going back to Kenya and learn...
...world record all right-.3 sec. faster than Snell had ever run the mile before. But he was bitterly disappointed. "It's very hard without competition," he said. "It detracts from the incentive." This week, in another meet at Wanganui, Snell will try again. There is talk of getting a mechanical rabbit...
...meter victory over Belgium's Roger Moens in the 1960 Olympics, Snell was still a virtual unknown last January, when he set out to run a sub4 min. mile for the first time. Against lackluster competition, over a slow grass track in the New Zealand town of Wanganui, he blazed through the mile in 3 min. 54.4 sec.-clipping a tenth of a second from Herb Elliott's 3∧-year-old world record. At first, trackmen dismissed Snell's performance (he ran the last quarter-mile in a withering 56.4 sec.) as a fluke. They soon...
...ache in his joints. The pain is enormous. When that happens, most coaches ease off. Lydiard just keeps him working harder and harder-until he becomes insensitive to the pain." So far, Snell's masochistic training regimen has paid off: when he finished his record-breaking mile in Wanganui, he was hardly panting...