Welshman attempts world record by painting his car with nail polish

A Welshman is attempting to make the record books by painting a car with nail varnish - and streaming the entire process online.David Sheath, 28, plans to painstakingly cover an entire Fiat 500 in pink polish - streaming his progress live and non-stop at pinkmyride.tv.

He is hoping the viral will be named as the world's longest advert by the Guiness Book of Records.The semi-professional footballer will live and sleep in a studio in Clapham, South London, while he completes the task, which he expects will take at least a week.
Guinness said it would look into David's claim for the record of longest online advert.

A spokesperson for Guinness World Records said: 'This sounds like a potentially interesting claim.'It is estimated David will need 200 pots of pink varnish and make 240,000 strokes to transform the white car into a pink car.

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Marathon World record holder to run New York Half Marathon in March

Gebrselassie is the current marathon world record-holder and a two-time Olympic 10,000-meter champion

"I"m very excited about going back to New York," Gebrselassie said.

"I got such a warm welcome when I ran the Half-Marathon in 2007. I"m sure it will be a wonderful event again and I'm looking forward to it."

According to the AFP:"The 36-year-old long distance legend last competed in a US event in 2007, when he won the New York Half-Marathon in a race-record 59 minutes, 24 seconds. Gebrselassie will seek a 20,000-dollar top prize in the 100,000-dollar event."

Gebrselassie holds the world marathon record of 2:03:59 which he set at the 2008 Berlin Marathon. He is also almost undefeated at the half marathon distance having won 9 out of the 10 the ten half marathon's he's raced.

Source: examiner.com

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