2w ago

British marathon runner Fauja Singh dies in road accident aged 114

www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk /news/national/25313535.british-marathon-runner-fauja-singh-dies-road-accident-aged-114/

"...was hit by a car and suffered fatal injuries while trying to cross a road in his birth village Beas Pind, near Jalandhar in Punjab, [India] ..."

RIP to an inspirational person. He only started distance running at 89!

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Sikhs in the City
This is art
He started at 89?! Damn. So I still have time. Thanks for telling me to keep procrastinate!
Outlives most people by 40 years only to be killed by a driver. This is awful on so many levels. 😔
I remember this guy making headlines for marathons in Toronto.
Holy shit I thought 114 was a mistype
That article really doesn't do this story justice. He wasn't merely hit by a car in an "accident", he was killed by a driver in a hit-and-run! (SOURCE)
Kinda skeptical if he was actually 114 though.
From Wikipedia:
Guinness World Records refused to include Singh in its record book because he could not produce his birth certificate to prove his age. Birth records were typically issued in villages in India at the time.[31][32]
https://www.espn.com/olympics/trackandfield/story/_/id/7143946/guinness-certify-100-year-old-fauja-singh-marathon [32]
That said, fuck cars
- So is he merely 110 running a marathon or only a super young 100?
  Still. Crazy impressed over here.
- That was because the British Raj did not create birth records so there is no record to produce. Local villages in India did keep a form of record but it was normal to be off by a few months or sometimes people lied to get their kids into school early. Given his history and fame, it is unlikely to be off by more than a few years at most.
  Don't take away his achievements for some bureaucratic reason.
It makes me livid that professional journalists still refer to preventable motor violence as "accidents". The most charitable way to describe what happened here is a crash. The most accurate way to describe what happened here is institutionally or personally negligent manslaughter. In the year 2025 there is nothing accidental about the way that road and highway departments all over the world continue to uphold viscerally deadly environments as the normative streetscape.
I can’t tell if this is real or an onion site. Someone please tell me. I had no idea people could live to 114 and run!???
- We can live that long, although it's uncommon.
  A key thing as you get older is to stay active and mobile. If you can it'll be easier to remain mobile longer which will in turn help you live longer.
  It can get hard though as bad knees or hips start impeding movement.
  Edit: and the staying active as you get older isn't like when you hit 70, but from what I've seen becomes more and more important in the 40s
  
  That only works if you don’t get the very common entropy of illness or disability.
  Like tell that life advice to many people who i know who are bedridden in their 20s from lifelong chronic illness.

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