GEORGIA: Athlete bursts hot water bottles by blowing them up with his nose

Record ID: 643063

  • Title: GEORGIA: Athlete bursts hot water bottles by blowing them up with his nose
  • Date: 6th October 2009
  • Summary: TBILISI, GEORGIA (RECENT) (REUTERS) (*** SOME FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) JEMAL TKESHELASHVILI, 18 YEAR-OLD GEORGIAN ATHLETE AND JUDO PRACTITIONER, WALKING INTO ROOM AT START OF RECORD ATTEMPT AUDIENCE IN ROOM VARIOUS OF FOUR RUBBER HOT WATER BOTTLES ON TABLE GEORGIA'S GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS COMMISSION WATCHING AS TKESHELASHVILI STARTS BLOWING UP HOT WATER BOTTLE WITH HIS
  • Embargoed: 21st October 2009 13:00
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  • Location: Georgia
  • Country: Georgia
  • Topics: Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
  • Reuters ID: LVABI4G81RD9AEYUS213I50MHC97
  • Story Text: Jemal Tkeshelashvili, an 18-year-old Georgian athlete, has found an unusual way of plotting his moment of sporting glory. Judo practitioner Tkeshelashvili has attempted to make history in the Guinness Book of Records by blowing up rubber hot water bottles until they burst.
    Not content with aiming for this title, the teenager has chosen an intriguing method of blowing them up - by using his nose.
    Last Wednesday (September 29) Tkeshelashvili managed to burst three hot rubber bottles with his nose - in 23 seconds, 16 seconds, and 13 seconds.
    Tkeshelashvili, the Judo World Cup holder in his age category, then performed his piece de resistance - bursting a hot water bottle while a 120 kilogram man was sitting on it.
    The young athlete has to wait for the World Guinness Book Commission to confirm his status as record holder.
    Tkeshelashvili plans to make other unique record attempts while chasing his dream of becoming an Olympic champion in 2012. One of his record attempts will see him pull a Boeing airliner with his bare hands.
    He said: "I want to to drag the US-made 612 tonne Boeing for about 12 metres with my hands and of course to do it in several seconds. But my first and childhood dream is to become an Olympic champion and I am sure I will do it for Georgia."
    The current record for blowing up a standard hot water bottle until it bursts was 51.98 seconds set by Brian Jackson from the United States in April 2006.
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