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David Weir, 34, produced the fastest wheelchair mile in history at The Mall in London after crossing the line outside Buckingham Palace in 3min 7sec on Saturday. The British athlete duly retained his British Athletics men's wheelchair road mile title, beating Japan's Kota Hokinoue by 22 seconds.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) David Weir:

"I met Sir Roger [Bannister] to promote this race. He knew everything me about me, my disability [Weir was born with a severed spinal cord and cannot use his legs]; it was pretty cool. It was an honour to meet him and [to] try and break the three minutes [the time Weir targeted to mark the official 60th anniversary of the first sub-four-minute mile run by Sir Roger] today was an honour and [especially] on the anniversary as well."