Tuesday 25 October 2011

No record for 100-year-old Turbaned Tornado?!

The Canadian Press
Oct 24, 12:16 pm EDT

An excerpt from the article:

Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press

TORONTO - A 100-year-old man who completed the Toronto Marathon has not made it into the Guinness World Records book after all.
Guinness spokesman Craig Glenday says his organization won't accept the evidence provided by Fauja Singh that he is actually 100.
The Turbaned Tornado, as he's nicknamed, thought he’d become the oldest marathoner ever on Oct. 16, but Glenday tells Toronto radio station AM640 that Singh can’t provide the necessary proof of his age....

1 comment:

  1. outrageous... they may not have even had "appropriate" birth certificates 100 years ago, or where he was from...

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