Gareth Bale flashed like a bolt of lightning, covered a little under 60 meters in 8 seconds with the ball near his feet and before anyone could blink an eye, slipped the ball between Barcelona goalkeeper’s legs. Bale’s heart-stopping majestic sprint that night made some of the greatest athletes sit up and take notice. Moroccon athlete, Hicham El Guerrouj is widely regarded as the greatest middle-distance runner of all times and he continues to hold the record for 1500 meters set by him in Rome during an athletic championship in 1998. The record was earlier held by another prominent athlete, the Algerian Noureddine Morceli,