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Guinness World Record Book: Alternate Proof

Fitness Guru Dept: Guinness World Record book has cruelly discriminated against all elders if their only reason for refusing to acknowledge our fitness hero Fauja Singh s Toronto marathon accomplishment is the fact colonial India did not register births in 1911, according to The Star. Surely there are multiple reasonable alternate proof-of-age documents to be found in Mr. Singh s eventful life on two continents school records, census records, marriage records, immigration records, testimonials, etc. that Guinness must examine before publicly and internationally defaming Singh as possibly a fraudulent fitness guru for us seniors and re: Guinness rebuffs 100-year old runner, Oct. 25 Pension plans all over the world have experience establishing age without birth certificates. Although my aunt s birth in Winnipeg was unregistered in 1917 and her baptismal record was destroyed in a church fire, her name on a school attendance record was accepted as documenting her age. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.