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Beijing is going to be a hard competition and it might be necessary to break a world record to win.

These stunts include trying to break the world record time for flying around the world in a balloon.

Next month , she'll go before Guinness World Records officials to see how she sizes up for a Guinness world record title .

Phelps was ahead of world-record pace during the opening (butterfly) leg, but he and the rest of the field fell back over the next two laps.

Opera's launch a week before Firefox was like any other launch, unlike Firefox's much publicized world record attempt.

One daredevil who's attempted to break his own world record for a longest motorcycle jump ends in a crash in Oklahoma.

Each rise of a skyscraper breaking the world record tends to be followed by an economic downturn.

Next up for the men, this Saturday's 1500. Davis holds the world record, but could get a strong challenge from Hedrick. . .

Of course it would be nice if Ms Kim, who scored a world record for her short programme on Wednesday, claimed a gold medal this week.

And how about a little kiss? Forty thousand people puckered up in Mexico City, as part of an effort to set a new world record for smooching.

By the time of the 1932 Olympics, Nambu was the reigning world record holder in the long jump.

IT WAS another big occasion and yet another world record for a Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt, on Sunday August 16th.

Bolt, the 22-year-old world record breaker, last night rocked the globe once more, lowering his own record by a massive 0. 11 of a second.

It was his dream and hard work that made it possible for him to set a world record in pole vault.

I hear Glen is out to beat the world record for the number of hardboiled eggs eaten in a minute.

It was a shame as another few increments could have led to a world-record price for the artist.

This may take a while to clean up. A new world record for the number of dominoes toppled in one go has been set in the Netherlands.

In nineteen thirty-five, only two years after his around the world record flight, Wiley Post was killed in a flying accident in Alaska.

Cuban Erick Hernandez on Thursday said he had set a world record for juggling the Jabulani World Cup ball, while sitting down .

Sometimes, we like to have more this beautiful shiny orange color, but sometimes got opaque as you saw on the world record from Harps.

Powell admitted that he had not threatened his world record because he was nervous of false starting .

Chefs and culinary students displayed 5000 cheese-inspired dishes Monday in an attempt to set a new world record in Manila.

He took 17 curtain calls and, by his death, held the world record for them.

During the Games, it was the site of the amazing opening ceremony and world record-setting track meets.

Bolt said he was pretty happy with himself for setting the world record, but considered Olympic gold the big prize.

World record or not, Mutai's performance is one of the greatest in recent memory.

It was the first time the men's 100 meters world record had been broken in the Olympic final since Canadian Donovan Bailey in 1996.

divers sat on the bottom of a pool in Germany to play a card game for 36 hours, in a bid to set a new world record.

Haile Gebrselassie, the men's marathon world record holder, is threatening not to run if conditions are not safe.

She did very well, but she failed to break the world record.

Ohoud is happy to hear that the city of Ramallah set a Guiness World record after a restaurant produces the largest plate of Tabouleh.

If Jessica Alba teased me like this, I'd set a world record sprinting down that hallway to violently penetrate her every orifice.

Not a single Chinese name could be found among the top world class athletes or world record holders in competitive sports before 1949.

Earlier this week he ran a time of 9. 58sec to break his own 100m world record by exactly the same margin.

German athlete skied non-stop for 264 hours, or 11 days. He was in Austria's Oetztal valley to try to break his own world record.

Game organizers are counting on the contest being long enough to break a world record.

On September 26, James Field bungee jumped during his attempt of setting a new Guinness World Record in London, UK.

Its construction speed, two storey a day, makes another world record among the similar ultra-high rise buildings.

He beat his own world record with a time of 9. 58 seconds.

And look at him go. Professional bungee jumper AJ Hackett broke a world record with this 764-foot leap off China's Macao Tower.

A Tehran city councillor recently claimed for his capital nothing less than a "new world record" in air pollution.

Pinewood Studios is hoping to beat the world record for the biggest movie screening with its drive-in showing of Mission Impossible.

He surpassed the current 113-day world record Tuesday and plans to leave the enclosure next week.

He had hoped to work for such a new world record, but was frustrated by bad weather.

Jamaica's Usain Bolt won the Olympic gold medal in the men's 200m Wednesday night, breaking the world record in a time of 19. 30 seconds.

In evening's finals, his group is in the lead by 30 second 79 result once more refurbishing world record, and has won the gold medal.

Believed to be born in 1957, Eeyore, the donkey, is now a Guinness World Record contender for the oldest donkey in the world.

Wolong Giant Panda Research Center plans to apply for a Guinness World Record for a panda of oldest childbearing age and longest pregnancy.

He has not competed since then, a fallow period during which he lost his world record and, perhaps, his invincibility .

In order to impress the guests or even the whole nation, couples adopt ancient Chinese wedding customs or attempt to set a world record.

As for my own world record attempt, it's still on. After all, as Grandpa told me, life is for living.

Jamaican Usain Bolt sprinted to a second gold at the Games, winning the 200-meter dash in a world record time of 19. 30 seconds.

He used to be a holder of the world record for high jump.

The South Korean team won the grand prize for overall performance, but a Portuguese competitor set a new texting world record.

The men's marathon world record holder and celebrated distance runner, Haile Gebrselassie, says he's retiring from athletics.

Grandmaster Liu Dahua of Hubei Province will be attempting a new Xiangqi world record in a few weeks' time.

Van Gogh's impressionistic painting entitled "Dr. Gachet" was purchased for a world record $ 85 million by a Japanese investor.

Finally, Spitz swam the butterfly leg for the U. S. medley relay team: gold medal and world record.

Next, in the event in which he was considered most vulnerable, he won the 100m freestyle, setting another world record.

It was not a gold medal, or a world record broken, but a show of sheer determination and guts.

Huangjueping graffiti street is applying for a world record, as the biggest graffiti art work currently in existence.

In all, 510 dishes were set in front of the crowd Tuesday. Each one had to be certified distinct by a Guinness World Record adjudicator.

He made his third and final jump to beat the world record.

He made one last attempt at the world record.

His creation, the BMW high-altitude carburettor, enables the company to claim its first world record in 1919.

The Guinness world record for the fastest average speed at the Tour de France was set in 1999 by the American cyclist Lance Armstrong.

Up above, the spectacle was recorded by cameramen in helicopters. The even will be entered for a Guinness World Record.

The great pole vaulter, Sergei Bubka, repeatedly broke the world record by a centimetre - and earned a cash bonus every time.

In the photo above, George towers over the world's smallest dog, Boo Boo, at a photo shoot for the Guinness World Record's book.

But here was Isinbayeva, with some 80, 000 fans focused on the Russian as she had one more chance to break her own world record.

The oldest female athlete at the World Masters Games in Sydney has broken a world record in the shot put -- at the age of 100.

It's an unprecedented swim and a world record at the longest unassisted ocean solo swim.

If I break the world record in Beijing, I would want them to remember it in the same way.

He does not hold the Guinness world record, only because he has not submitted the required documentation to Guinness.

I sprinted down a virtual track, running in place fast enough to earn a game world record.

The last gold medal has been won, the last world record broken, and the Olympic flag is now in the care of London's mayor, Boris Johnson.

Deforestation, primarily due to agriculture, continues to threaten this world record-breaking bat.

Double world record holder Wang Junxia received another award yesterday when she was chosen as the best athlete at the 7th National Games.

His attempt to break the world record nearly came off.

Michael Johnson set a world record in the 200-metre race at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, with a time of 19. 32 seconds.

I also didn't want anybody to question it. I had the world record and I wanted to make sure it was legitimate.

The world record holder appeared more comfortable later while handling his baby cheetah, which was the size of a fully grown domestic cat.

American world sprint champion Maurice Greene Blames a head wind for failing to Break the 100 metres world record in Melborne on Wednesday .

Bob Bowman , coach of multiple world-record-holders, won the Golden Goggle for Coach of the Year for the second straight year.

These Chinese women have taken their long hair to new lengths making a Guinness World Record as the world's first long hair village.

Only 10 minutes off the men's world record, Paula Radcliffe is essentially unbeatable.

British inventor has set the world record for "fastest piece of furniture" with his hand-made moving table.

The fellow Jamaican and former world record holder won the other semi-final in a race that knocked out American Tyson Gay.

Miss Thompson had set a world record in the 100-metre event, with a time of 54. 48 seconds.

What will accord her age with by, but she came away with a world record, the fastest time for a 95-year-old, 60 meters in 29. 86 seconds.

She beat the world record in the three events she entered on her way to two gold medals and a silver.

Very luckily, Bolt broke the world record with a time of 9. 69 seconds!

She intends to stick to her diet and challenge the Guinness World Record for eating only soil, which currently stands at 2 months.

Guinness World Record attempt completed we then got on with a full training session.

At the 1996 Olympic Games, Canada's Donovan Bailey won the 100-meter sprint and set a new world record. What was his record?

She will attempt to break the world record.

While Liu was once the unquestioned favorite, the loss of his world record, a sore hamstring and lackluster season have raised doubts.

He matched his own world record in the semifinals and then broke it in the final.

Following in his fathers footsteps many years later, Sir Malcolm Campbell's son, Donald, also set up a new world record.

If current Olympic champion, Marion Jones, took such drugs, she would probably have broken that world record more than once.

On Monday he scooped the Guinness world record for completing 12 press ups on just one finger of his right hand.

"Chanel is the Guinness world record holder for the oldest living dog, " said Jamie Panas, a spokeswoman for Guinness.

On Saturday , at the Olympics in China , he shattered the world record in the men's 100- meter sprint with a time of 9. 69 seconds .

September 18, 380 volunteers attempted to break the Guinness World Record for Human-mattress dominoes during a morning show in New York.

The feet, or 3272 miles of it, could be a new world record.

With his determination we'd most likely get a world record on sustainable energy.

He tried to break the world record but failed.

Radhakant was crowned the official Guinness world record holder for the longest ear hair back in 2003.

Following in his gather's footsteps many years later, Sir Malcolm's son, Donald, also set up a world record.

Following in his father's footsteps many years later, Sir Malcolm's son, Donald, also set up a world record.

The two sides have also fought bitterly over the world record for the largest vat of tabbouleh.

He paid just under HK$86m, a world record for a piece of Chinese furniture.

Women record of her ages rise by, but she came away with world record, the fastest time for 95 year-old, 60 metres in 29. 86 seconds.

The city also hopes to establish a world record for the number of people attending a mass circumcision.

The event's website acknowledges that it will faces stiff competition for the world record from an event in Las Vegas later this month.

Russian woman has set a new world record, lifting a 14-kg. glass ball with her vagina muscles.

After second Olympic gold and world record, what do you want? ? Excuse me for my english.

Do you know who set up the world record for the high jump?

He's Stephen Clarke, and earlier today he broke the world record for carving the most pumpkins in an hour.

The 11-year-old girl's father contacted Guinness World Record staff, requesting that they consider her for the title of hairiest child.

A rich Chinese buyer paid $200, 000 for a racing pigeon at a Belgium auction yesterday, setting a new world record.

Great Britain's Jonathan Edwards, the world record holder finished first in the men's triple jump with a leap of 17. 6 metres.

Spain were on the verge of a new world record for games unbeaten before losing 2-0 to the USA in Wednesday's Confederations Cup semi-final.

They nearly set a new world record by finishing installing such large equipment in no more then three days.

After repeated testing, this record finally Andrea has been recognized and incorporated in the "Ukrainian world record book" in.

Albert, a goldfish, holds the Guinness World Record for "fish with the largest repertoire of tricks. "

Robinson competed in her first meet only four months before the 1928 Olympics. In her first outdoor meet, she set a world record for 100m.

Hof set the previous world record for full body ice contact in 2004. He stayed in ice for an hour and eight minutes.

Ten days into the Games, Canadian Ben Johnson beat defending champion Carl Lewis in the 100-meter dash5 with a world record time of 9. 79.

Fix for personal best lap time not replacing world record lap time when playing without internet connection.

Fourteen thousand people dressed in Santa Claus costumes gathered to break a new Guinness world record in Porto, Portugal, on Dec.

Thapa had his application for a Guinness World Record for the smallest man rejected because at just 14 he was too young to qualify.

The world's fastest man, Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Usain Bolt, once visited a Manchester United training session.

Wang Qi stays calm ahead of his Guinness world record-breaking attempt on Sept.

Katie won the Beijing Games' first gold medal on their opening day of competition, tying a world record in women's air rifle.

Swimming athletes have rewritten a world record and eleven asian records respectively.

Africans are buying mobile phones at a world record rate, with take-up soaring by 550% in five years, research shows.

It houses the Aquarium and Discovery Center, which has the unique distinction of holding the world record for the largest acrylic panel.

Kayak world record holder, Tyler Bradt suffered a broken back after attempting the same waterfall.

Not only did he touch it first, he did it in world record time, his fourth gold and fourth world record at Beijing.

Over a period of eight days, Mark Spitz had entered seven events, won all seven and set a world record in every one.

But think about this: The heaviest barbell that Boyle ever dead-lifted weighed 700 pounds. The world record is 1, 008 pounds.

She entered a screaming competition in the Millennium Dome and was told her 129 decibel howl broke the world record.

Belgium is on the verge of a world record: most time taken to form a government.

Cuban four time Guinness world record holder Jose Castelar Cairo rolls a cigar in Havana, Cuba last Monday.

That German athlete attempted to break the world record but he failed.

Liu Xiang may have won numerous championships before, but this one marked the time because he broke the world record.

Melvin Feizel Boothe of Pontiac, Michigan, was The official Guinness World Record 'longest fingernails' holder in 2010 .

The beams collided with a combined energy of seven trillion electron volts, about 3. 5 times more powerful than the previous world record.

If only she could keep it up, she would break the world record.

This was a different record. This was a pure O2 static apnea record that Guinness had set the world record at 13 minutes.

London, England (CNN) -- An unmanned solar aircraft has smashed the world record for continuous flight.

An Hungarian escape-artist will attempt a world record on the grid before Sunday's Bahrain grand prix.

A group of Arkansas college students has set the world record for the world's largest Christmas stocking.

Lucy: Really? She had broken the world record for 26 times, and kept be the winner before this season.

She holds the world record for the long jump.

Gunnell clipped a second off the world record.

Tantric master Wim (Iceman) Hof set another chilling Guinness World Record.

"The coach told me before the race to focus on the gold medal and not to worry about breaking the world record, " Sun said.

A team of Iranian chefs set a new world record with a 4921-foot long ostrich meat sandwich.

He broke the world record for the long jump?

Cielo, the Olympic champion and world-record holder in the event, finished the event with a mark of 47. 16 seconds.

According to the Metro. co. uk on February 14, 14 couples in Thailand are competing to break the Guinness world record for the longest kiss.

and its effort to set a world record.

There's a world record for just about any contest you can think of -- even cherry-pit spitting!

Gatlin shares the 100-meter world record of 9. 77 seconds, though that would be erased if his doping penalty becomes official.

It is very difficult for him to break the world record.

Mike: When Mark Spitz won 7 swimming gold medals at the 1972 Olympics. . . and set a world record in all 7 events too! What was yours?

The last team to visit that U. S. stationset a world record at the time for longest stay in orbit, 84 days.

She hopes to have another crack at the world record this year.

Lochte broke his own world record in retaining the 200 metres individual medley on Thursday.

Dutch man stood in ice last week for 72 minutes. He broke his own world record.

The true funny activity set a new Guinness World Record of the most people to make a smiley face.

At the Olympics he improved by another six centimeters to win the gold medal and break the world record.

We were ready for a world record.

He was reported to have established the world record.

Driver Wang Qi attempts to break the Guinness world record of 7, 572 feet for the longest vehicle drift Sept. 30 in Tianjin, China.

As many as 768 Croats managed to create the biggest human smiley breaking the Guinness World Record.

He followed that historic victory by breaking the world record and winning a world championship.

"I've always wanted to get an individual world record, " Vollmer said. "I know I can go faster than anybody's been. "

Mission: Impossible seems the perfect choice to beat the existing world record and it will look absolutely sensational.

Given that both transfers happened solely in the eurozone, with no English clubs involved, how can we claim this is a world record transfer?

He has set his seventh Guinness World Record -- this time for fitting 56 small bubbles into a big bubble.

She had sex with 919 guys in a single day, setting a world record.

It was a Jonathan who broke the world record.

Two years ago, Mexico City actually beat the world record for simultaneous smooching when 39, 897 people locked lips downtown.

The Agricultural Bank of China says it raised a world record $22. 1 billion in its initial public offering of stock last month.

But China will set the world record with its 208-metre Beijing wheel.

Whoever breaks the world record will get one million yuan as an a ward.

The collision energy of 8 TeV set a new world record, and increased the machine's discovery potential considerably.

The world's oldest female athlete has won a gold medal and broken a world record in the shot put at the Sydney 2009 World Masters Games.

Machine of low gravitational ran -- you also can break world record!

When it comes to running marathons, eight hours, 25 minutes and 16 seconds is not a world record.

But the night was mostly about 22-year-old Liu, the Olympic champion, twice world medalist and now new world record holder.

I decided that I was going to break the world record live on prime-time television.

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, who broke the world record in the men's 100 and 200 meters races, won the LAFF award fo best male athlete.

A circus performer has broken one world record and set a new one for skipping on a high wire.

This new world record was accomplished during the test run for a train called the CRH380A.

She swam across the English Channel and set up a new world record.

It with my family and the world record of what happened that day.

The barbeque was meant to shatter the world record for the globe's largest grill-off.

m very excited by the news that Stone broke the world record.

He was reported to have broken the world record.

He set up a new world record in September 1935 at Bonneville Salt Salt Flats, Utah. Bluebird.

Five students set a world record after reading aloud for 300 straight hours in the Dominican Republic.

He tells us that in writing the book he discovered the simple reason why many people want to set a world record.

Feedback: The video won a Guinness World Record for the most-viewed online ad of all time.

The world record was eight minutes and 58 seconds, held by Tom Sietas, that guy with the whale lungs I told you about.

When you're the world record holder then somebody else breaks your record, it's certainly a concern.

That girl sets up a new world record this time.

Her last throw was only three centimetres short of the world record.

This activity created two years ago broke the American's world record was 145 at the same time Illinois shower.

Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) has been the world record holder for largest solar thermal project since its completion in 1990.

And then amazingly , Glenn set a world record for the mile run!

A following wind deprived her of an official world record in the 100m.

'If we do, it will be the most amazing achievement. The world record is just something we added in as a fun extra.

the Golden League Liu in Lausanne, Switzerland, to break the world record of 12. 88 seconds in the results.

Competing in the 100m freestyle, he equalled the world record in a qualifying heat.

Jackie Bibby set the world record for the most live rattlesnakes held in your mouth by their tail.

Marvelous, Lance from usa have clock10 second to set a new100-meter world record.

The current world record stands at 27 hours and 15 minutes - but Carragher is confident the title will soon be heading to Liverpool.

Another world record fell in the men's 100-meter breaststroke when Kosuke Kitajima touched the wall in 58. 91.

The current Guinness World Record for a gathering of people with the same name is 583 Norbergs in Sweden.

Dina: Wow, 15 seconds? ! That's gotta be a world record or something.

He set a new world record of swimming, which won a gold medal for China Team. E.

Jan Zelezny entered the 1988 Olympics as the world record holder in the javelin throw.

He set a new world record of shooting, which won a gold medal for China Team.

The 57-year-old retired prison guard broke his own world record by eating his 25, 000th Big Mac hamburger.

He set up a new world record in September 1935 at Bonneville Salt Flats , Utah .

A twins from Australia set a new unofficial world record of watching The World Cup stuff continuously for 87 hours .

And then set a world record, following that, two weeks later.

Now Robles , who won his heat in 13. 39 seconds and well off his world record time of 12. 87, becomes the clear favorite.

Write down the world record for the 110-meter-hurdle race for males.

That early celebration just cost you a world record.

The other world record of the night went to Cameron van der Burgh who set a new best in his 50m breaststroke semi-final.

Congratulations! You've broken the world record.

Liu's coach Sun said the loss of the world record would not have a big impact on Liu's preparations for the August 8-24 Games.

The possibility of breaking the world record never occurred to him.

A driver sets a new Guinness World Record by driving along two rows of beer bottles for 60 metres.

Marvelous, Lance from USa has docked 10 seconds to set a new 100-meter world record.

Liu Yige broke the world record. We are proud of her.

February 2, 2010: A harlequin Great Dane named 'Giant George' is the current Guinness World Record holder.

At the Olympic Games, he created a new world record.

Seeing their idol break the world record, the kids became wild with joy.

An early work by Alighiero Boetti, an Italian dreamer, made a world-record price this week.

He set up a new world record in September 1935 at Bonneville Salt Flat Utah.

The ride is remarkably smooth and held the world record for the most inversions for many years.

She came in with the world record in the 400 individual medley but settled for bronze.

According to the CRI Online, on July 31, a new world record was set for the most human dominoes at Weida stadium, Germany.

The victory was met with thunderous noise in the velodrome where the UK team broke the world record in 42. 600 seconds.