99-Year-Old Grandfather broke The World Swimming Record
Queensland - World swimming record has been broken in the Commonwealth Games trials on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. This achievement was done by a 99 year old grandfather.
George Corones, who turns 100 years in April, successfully completed the 50 meters freestyle in 56.12 seconds.
Corones is the only swimmer in the 100-104 year age group, swimming alone.
Reports about the elderly man were uploaded by the Australian Dolphins Seafarers Team on their Facebook page.
"We have just witnessed the history successfully inscribed!" writes Tim Sailors Dolphins Australia as quoted from Australia Plus, Saturday (3/3/2018).
Although he has always been a good swimmer, Corones admits that he is only getting into this sport when he was 80 years old.
Corones began to fall in love with the aquatic world as he sat in elementary school, where his school was in Charleville, Queensland, Australia. He then followed a similar extracurricular when high school and college.
But he had stopped swimming about six decades ago.
"The war stopped a lot, and from then until I retired at age 80, I never swam at all," he said in an interview with ABC in 2013.
The 88-Year-Old Grandfather beat 5 Robbers
Another achievement has been done by an 88-year-old grandfather. He performs actions that are somewhat impossible and hard to accept common sense.
The old man managed to paralyze five robbers who were about to take a woman's bag. One of the perpetrators of the robbery he paralyzed even armed with a knife.
Quoted from page Independent, Thursday 22 February 2018, the grandfather was known as John Nixon. He attacked all the robbers half-consciously, in Kentish Town, London.
Despite getting cuts during a fight, the former war veteran still managed to fight the five robbers to flee.
"At first I heard a girl screaming for being robbed, and then I shouted, 'Leave her alone!'," Nixon said.
Then the five robbers turned to Nixon and said, "We'll take your money if you dare all kinds." Soon the bandits will regret his threat. They are just battered.
Grandfather Nixon said he was trained to become a commando member in 1940, until he joined the elite special service unit in the Korean War of 1950 to 1953.
Police said the woman who was a victim of a robbery survived and did not suffer any injuries after being rescued by Nixon's grandfather.
