Some world record attempts have moved indoors or into the backyard—where the risk of viral spread is reduced but achievement can still be great—while others reflect Canada’s new cooped-in reality
Rainier and Melissa Paauwe, practice for the three-legged competition for Guinness near their home in Calgary, Alta., on April 30, 2020
The global coronavirus crisis and related shutdowns have required new usages of just about every superlative—especially in reference to illness and economic slowdown. Biggest, widest, quickest, longest, deepest. Worst. Still, the pandemic hasn’t broken the world-records sector, itself. It cannot quash the spirit of those who dream of shattering ceilings and benchmarks alike. Officials with London-based Guinness World Records say the number of new record applications has dropped only slightly.
The Guinness World Records organization, too, has had to adjust to the world’s physically distant new reality. Its adjudicators no longer travel to events in their spiffy navy blazers with grey trim and gold buttons to provide instant verification. But they do offer video adjudications. They’ve also loosened their requirements to allow witnesses to file verification reports remotely.
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