 At the conclusion of the interview, Bannister was asked whether he looked back on the sub-4-minute mile as the most important achievement of his life.Bannister replied that he instead saw his subsequent forty years of practising medicine and some of the new procedures he introduced as being more significant.He also said that, in terms of athletic achievement, he felt his performances at the 1952 Olympics and the 1954 Commonwealth Games were more significant than running the sub-4-minute mile.