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Phillips Idowu: Hang on to your hats... here comes Idowu
Birmingham :: United Kingdom | about 8 hours ago
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Phillips Idowu is sitting deep in thought in a Birmingham city-centre hotel. "Which would I ask her to give me?" he enquires after a few moments. The scenario which has just been suggested to the world champion triple jumper is that of a fairy godmother...
Tags: Idowu, Jonathan Edwards (theologian), triple jumper, gold medal, world record, Hackney, Birmingham, olympic champion, olympic gold, London, United Kingdom, Triple jump, Christian Olsson, World Championships in Athletics ￢ﾀﾓ Men's triple jump, Weird MC, Phillips Idowu, Nelson ￃﾉvora, Aston Moore, allnews
'Loo and Behold'- World Record for Harpic
Mumbai :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility New Delhi, Nov 19 : While everybody was 'harping' on the significance of hygiene on World Toilet Day, Harpic today notched a world record for the longest queue outside a toilet. The record, which came in association with Sulabh, saw 861 people come lining...
Tags: Reckitt Benckiser India Limited, Harpic, United News of India, Sulabh International, world record, India, Mumbai, Hygiene, Reckitt Benckiser, Sanitation, World Toilet Organization, Sewerage, Bindeshwar Pathak
Results worldwide
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 5 days ago
Credibility Michelle Wie (US) 70-66-70-69; 277: Paula Creamer (US) 67-69-71-70; 278: Cristie Kerr (US) 69-70-67-72, Morgan Pressel (US) 72-68-71-67, Jiyai Shin 67-66-74-71; 281: Kin Song-hee 65-72-70-74, Lorena Ochoa (Mex) 71-69-72-69; 283: M.J.
Tags: world record, Rsa, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Leisel Jones, FINA World Swimming Championships
Swimming: Sakai breaks 200-meter backstroke short-course world record
Tōkyō :: Japan | 7 days ago
Credibility Japan's Shiho Sakai broke the women's 200-meter backstroke short-course world record at a World Cup meet in Berlin on Saturday. Sakai claimed victory in a time of 2 minutes, 00.18 seconds to break the previous world mark of 2.00.91 held by Zimbabwe's...
Tags: Shiho Sakai, meter backstroke, world record, backstroke short, course world, Japan, Tōkyō, Kirsty Coventry, Sakai, Business Finance, News agencies, Japanese media, Kyodo News
HK challenges world largest harmonica ensemble
Hong Kong :: China | 8 days ago
Credibility More than 6,000 Hong Kong music lovers gathered at the Happy Valley Racecourse Recreation Playground on Friday night to break the world record of the largest harmonica ensemble, organizers said. During the break of a free open-air concert called Swire...
Tags: harmonicas ensemble, largest harmonicas, world record, China, Hong Kong, Swire Group, Harmonica, Human Interest, Entertainment Culture
Guinness World Records Day marked with hugging stunt at station
London :: United Kingdom | 9 days ago
Credibility For one minute, 112 people, many of them total strangers, embraced at St Pancras station in London, the most to do so for that long. The stunt was held on the fifth annual Guinness World Records Day — 24 hours of record-breaking attempts — marking the...
Tags: London, decker bus, United Kingdom, Routemaster, Guinness World Records, Manjit Singh, Double-decker bus, Bus, Human Interest, Smithville Texas, Gingerbread, Scanpix, The Gingerbread Boy, Cookies, Gingerbread man, IKEA, Stunt, Guinness, World record, Double Decker, St Pancras London, Hug, St Pancras railway station, Thursday, London Borough of Camden, Bikini, Craig Glenday
Phelps edged out by South African star in 200m IM final
Stockholm :: Sweden | 10 days ago
Credibility South African Darian Townsend hogged the glory in the end, taking the title in 1:51.79 but Phelps came in second in 1:53.93 to leave Lithuanian Vytautas Janusaitis with bronze in 1:54.34...Most swimmers in Stockholm are still wearing the performance-enhancing...
Tags: Michael Phelps, world record, world cup, Jessica Hardy, course world, Felicity Galvez
Never dreamt of this day: Sawant
Mumbai :: India | 17 days ago
Credibility Sawant was the captain of Indian Education Society Secondary School, Kandivali, against whom Rizvi Springfield's Sarfaraz Khan smacked 439 runs to create a world record on Wednesday. "We are very disappointed...We had dropped a few catches but we cannot...
NBC 3 West Virginia (WSAZ): A Thrilling Way to Break a World Record
Chesapeake :: VA :: USA | 27 days ago
Credibility the music, the moves and since it's almost Halloween, there's no better time to get down with a little thriller! People gathered in the parking lot at Chesapeake High School Saturday night to try and break a world record for the most people dancing to...
Tags: world record, Boise
Lebanon dips into another world record with hummus
Beirut :: Lebanon | 28 days ago
Credibility Hundreds of garlic-loving Lebanese on Saturday came together to make the largest hummus serving on the world's biggest plate, claiming ownership of the dish with a new Guinness world record. A Guinness representative was on hand to certify the record...
Tags: Lebanon, world record
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