Post: The world tallest man has a new rival
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04-22-2009, 01:20 AM
#1
Grimsley33
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World's Tallest Man Has New Rival
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(April 17) - The official world's tallest man has some stiff competition -- from within his own country.
Bao Xishun of China, who stands at 7 feet, 9 inches tall, is recognized by Guinness World Records as the tallest man on the globe. But doctors in Tianjin, China, said they measured a man named Zhao Liang at 8 feet, 1 inch, BBC News reported.
Bao was first named the world's tallest man in 2006. He was trumped by Leonid Stadnik of Ukraine in 2007, who was measured at 8 feet, 5 inches. But Bao reclaimed the title in 2008 when Stadnik refused to be re-measured under new Guinness guidelines.
Doctors measured new rival Zhao, a former basketball player, at a hospital where he received successful surgery for a foot injury. He would have to be confirmed by Guinness to officially be named world's tallest.
Zhao's stature may be atypical, but his mother's concerns for him aren't.
"I am so worried about his marriage, job and his health that my hair has turned white," his mother, Wang Keyun, told the Xinhua news agency.
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(April 17) - The official world's tallest man has some stiff competition -- from within his own country.
Bao Xishun of China, who stands at 7 feet, 9 inches tall, is recognized by Guinness World Records as the tallest man on the globe. But doctors in Tianjin, China, said they measured a man named Zhao Liang at 8 feet, 1 inch, BBC News reported.
Bao was first named the world's tallest man in 2006. He was trumped by Leonid Stadnik of Ukraine in 2007, who was measured at 8 feet, 5 inches. But Bao reclaimed the title in 2008 when Stadnik refused to be re-measured under new Guinness guidelines.
Doctors measured new rival Zhao, a former basketball player, at a hospital where he received successful surgery for a foot injury. He would have to be confirmed by Guinness to officially be named world's tallest.
Zhao's stature may be atypical, but his mother's concerns for him aren't.
"I am so worried about his marriage, job and his health that my hair has turned white," his mother, Wang Keyun, told the Xinhua news agency.
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Some people are just crazy tall
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04-27-2009, 04:18 PM
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Fierceknucks
Former Staff
There is an even taller man in Croatia, he stands 8'7''. Most of the people that are that tall and giant are that way because of a disease. There is a tumor that grows over the gland in they're brain that regulates growth. The tumor restricts that gland, causing it to not function properly, which results in either being very very small or very very large.
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