The probable reason that 37 runners broke the four-minute mile barrier within one year after Roger Bannister originally did was their:

a. enhanced training methods
b. better equipment
c. faster tracks
d. positive expectation, i.e., belief that it could be done (page 276)
e. all of the above


d. positive expectation, i.e., belief that it could be done (page 276)

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