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• August Sports Blog

  By gwr_mike | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:33:56 GMT

  

  Some say life slows down in the dog days of summer and the lazy days of August sure fit the bill. But records never rest, and while many of us were trying our best to stay in the shade or enjoy something on ice near the pool, plenty of people were still testing their limits this month. Let’s take a look at August in sports r...

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• July Sports Blog

  By gwr_mike | Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:04:09 GMT

  

  When the summer months heat up, so do the sports records.No month yet this year could compare to the number of records broken – both by professional athletes and everyday warriors – in July, so let’s not waste any time getting to the goods.WRAPPING UP THE WORLD CUPWe entered July on the highs of the 2010 FI...

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• June Sports Blog

  By gwr_mike | Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:46:56 GMT

  

  Wow! That’s all I can say about June, which gave us so many sports records, I don’t know where to start.World Cup? Wimbledon? NBA? All the records you broke?To be honest, we can begin anywhere and not go wrong, but let’s kick off with the dominant story around the globe this month: FIFA’s World Cu...

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• Longest professional tennis match

  By gwr_mike | Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:41:20 GMT

  

  Nobody said making Guinness World Records history was easy.The 2010 Wimbledon Championships has seen John Isner (USA, below left) and Nicolas Mahut (France) labour across three gruelling days of tennis to smash a number of new Guinness World Records achievements en route to Isner’s 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68 vi...

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• The 2010 NBA Finals are here!!

  By gwr_carlos | Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:32:03 GMT

  

  And oh boy how they come! The series to determine which is the best basketball team in the planet bring always a lot of excitement, but when the two most legendary franchises in the history of the sport, the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers, face each other in the finals, there is always something extra added to t...

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• The Champions League Final

  By GWR_Ralph | Fri, 21 May 2010 11:55:30 GMT

  

  Welcome to the Champions League Final blog where we will be talking record-breaking stadiums, teams, managers, players and will also compare this season’s stats with the all-time Champions League Guinness World Records to see how they match up. On Saturday 22nd May at the Santiago Bernabeu home of Real Madr...

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• April Sports Blog

  By gwr_mike | Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:57:30 GMT

  

  As the springtime weather heats up at the Guinness World Records offices, so have the claims for new sports feats and achievements. With key American professional leagues entering their postseasons, football leagues across Europe drawing current campaigns to a close, and you individual record-breakers continuing to impress and amaze, A...

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• London Marathon - results

  By GWR_Ralph | Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:04:19 GMT

  

  The 2010 Virgin London Marathon is over and it was a busy day for myself and the rest of the Guinness World Records adjudication team as 18 records were certificated on the day! This outstrips the 12 broken last year so it truly was a record-breaking day! Below is a full list of the results of ALL our Guinness World Records att...

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• London Marathon - preview

  By GWR_Ralph | Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:37:28 GMT

  

  This Sunday is one of my favourite days of the year, it is the 2010 Virgin London Marathon! It is always a happy day with thousands of runners across the world coming together to raise money for charity and try and challenging themselves to complete the gruelling 26.2 mile course. [image] At Guinness World Records we are accu...

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• World Sports Stacking Championships

  By GWR_Ralph | Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:35:52 GMT

  

  Sport stacking first started in the late 1980s in Southern California at a boys and girls club where it was known as cup stacking. After receiving national exposure on The Tonight Show in 1990 its popularity rocketed. By 2001 the World Sport Stacking Association was born to regulate competition in the now global pheno...

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