Talk:Roger Bannister

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Why the anti-Brit remark on the home page for what occurred on May 6th? True or not, it was irrelevant, indeed gratuitous. AlanE

Roger Bannister was overhyped by Britain and even the U.S. Why? Perhaps Britain needed a hero at the time, and he became one out of necessity.--Aschlafly 21:48, 6 May 2007 (EDT)

Agreed. He was overhyped. But the 4-minute mile was something special - a once believed impossibility - and sports people have always been treated this way when they rise above the pack. And yes, Britain needed a hero, as all nations do in times of trouble. In America, and here in Australia, it is easy to forget just what Britain went through during the war -especially in the Blitz - and how drained and devastated it was in those post-war years. It DESERVED a hero or two. My complaint is that that particular comment seemed unnecessary in the context. It was an opinion where one was not called for. And I reacted because there is a rich vein of "Anti-English" running through the site. Be pro-American by all means, but not anti other nations for the sake of it. I saw the Bannister comment seconds after reading the "Allies" page, where there is a comment on the British and French colonial past, and I was wondering why American Samoa is not considered to be the result of colonialism, but Western Samoa is. So I reacted - and will continue to react when I consider an unfairness is there. OK? Sorry....forgot to sign. AlanE