Revisional_Sin
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The article isn't claiming it'll kill you...
IMO, better training counts as "raw performance". I think that's more interesting than somebody happening to be born with a genetic advantage.
Progress had been steady for decades, but was interrupted by WW2.
There was one other person who did it a sub 4 minute a month and a half after him, then 3 more people the next year.
It was more down to improvement in training (Bannister was doing interval training, which was a new idea at the time).
I imagine that's a big part of it.