this is hagg and andersson.ey weren't involved in the war, 1943. ‘42—‘45 — they broke it, i think they flip—flopped between each other six times. and so they had the crucial ingredient to break records, which was several of them, all of a comparable calibre. i was going to say, it was the era of trying to recognise achievement, wasn't it? that was the point. i think so. britain wasn't dead as a country, and, of course, i did try to do it in ‘53. i thought that would be rather nice. but the pacejudgement, you know, was not fast enough for the — the three—quarters was 3:05, and you can't do a 54 last lap. so it all had to wait then until everything was ready for may ‘54. yes, and you came to it, in a sense, off a very disappointing 0lympics, didn't you, in ‘52? well, that was why i did it, really, because why i went on racing — i had, in my innocence, planned to win the olympic gold medal in helsinki, 1,500 metres, and my medical studies were getting more and more demanding and so i had planned to retire, you know