We won’t let Guinness officials kill our buzz after 100-year-old marathoner is denied a world record

Apparently, a British passport and a letter from the Queen aren’t enough to prove one’s date of birth, even if you’re a 100-year-old man who just ran a marathon. The BBC reports that Fauja Singh, who completed the Toronto Waterfront Marathon earlier this month, won’t be recognized by Guinness World Records without a birth certificate. We think this is a lame move on the part of the Guinness people, particularly because Singh’s trainer says India wasn’t even issuing birth certificates in 1911, the year the runner was born. But we won’t let the stubborn folk at Guinness diminish the fact that Singh’s is a remarkable story. Read the entire story [BBC] »