A new study suggests it's possible, but even with gains in shoe technology it may be out of reach - for now The day before Eliud Kipchoge's first attempt at a sub-two-hour marathon in 2017, a Nike vice-president described it to me as "a moonshot". Now, though, the track and field equivalent of landing on Mars is apparently just away. That was the startling conclusion of a study in the Royal Society Open Science journal last week, which predicted that a woman could shatter the four-minute mile ba...
'Like landing on Mars': can a woman run a sub four-minute mile? | Sean Ingle
The Guardian - 3 Mar 2025 10:00
A new study suggests it's possible, but even with gains in shoe technology it may be out of reach - for now The day before Eliud Kipchoge's first attempt at a sub-two-hour marathon in 2017, a Nike vice-president described it to me as "a moonshot". Now, though, the track and field equivalent of landing on Mars is apparently just away. That was the startling conclusion of a study in the Royal Society Open Science journal last week, which predicted that a woman could shatter the four-minute mile ba...
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