100-Meter Sprint World Record SMASHED by SIX Seconds!!!

[DS1]

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - It took him two tries, but South African Philip Rabinowitz made it into the Guinness Book of World Records Saturday as the fastest 100-year-old to run 100 meters.

Rabinowitz made his run at the Green Point stadium in 30.86 seconds, beating the previous record of 36.1 seconds.

Last week Rabinowitz also broke the record, clocking 28.7 seconds at the Mandela Park Athletics stadium in Khayelitsha, outside Cape Town. But a power outage stopped the official electronic clock, so the time was not recorded or recognized.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20040710/ap_on_fe_st/centenarian_sprinter

[SOteric]

1. Hey! You could've put a spoiler on that, dagnabbit!

I was planning to watch the Centigenarian Races on my VCR after work.

[DS1]

2. I have to watch them live. I get violent if anything gets between me

and my Centigenarian races :grr:

[SOteric]

3. Okay. That's fair.

[DS1]

4. ooo, a sunday afternoon poke

It's a great day to be a :boring:

[matcom]

5. Martin! you are looking GREAT these days!

healthy and fit too! :D

[DS1]

7. I won the record during a 2 week bender, this was me after a

particularly dehydrating night doing shots and drinking coffee :scared:

[curse10]

6. that's so cute!

I can only hope I'm that active at that age!