City of London (United Kingdom) (AFP) - South Africa coach Heyneke Meyer has taken inspiration from the first sub four-minute mile as the Springboks bid to make Rugby World Cup history.Every World Cup-winning team -- including South Africa in 1995 and 2007 -- have gone through the tournament unbeaten.Springbok fans thought their team's chances nosedived after a stunning 34-32 defeat by Japan in their Pool B opener, a result regarded as the greatest upset in World Cup history.Meyer, however, cited running a mile in under four minutes, once thought to be impossible until Britain's Roger Bannister clocked three minutes 59.4 seconds in 1954, as an example of a once staggering feat that was now commonplace.South Africa responded to their shock reverse with a 46-6 win over Samoa and last weekend's 34-16 defeat of Scotland.Now they top their group and are on course for a quarter-final with Australia or Wales.But they still have one more pool match on Wednesday against the United States before the knockout stages."We don't look past this game," Meyer told reporters on Monday."That's been our problem, where we couldn't build game on game.
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