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101-Year-Old Man Retires From Running Marathons, Shaming You Well, it was bound to happen. Fauja Singh, the old guy who is too old to prove how old he is, announced he will be retiring from running marathons. It's worth mentioning again, though, that he is almost 102 years old and still actively running marathons. Next month's Hong Kong Marathon on February ...

Old Guy Who Finished Marathon Is Too Old To Prove How Old He Is Fauja Singh was thought to be the first centenarian to complete a marathon. But Guinness World Records has a problem: "Singh's British passport shows his date of birth as April 1, 1911. A letter from Indian government officials states that birth records were not kept in 1911." [New York Times]...

A 100-Year-Old Man Has Finished Running A Marathon, Too First, there was the woman in Chicago who was more than nine months pregnant and who gave birth soon after crossing the finish line. Now, there's Fauja Singh, born in April 1911 and nicknamed the "Turbaned Tornado," who yesterday in Toronto became the first centenarian to complete a race of that di...