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How tall are you? Well, I am 180 centimetres, and this is considered pretty tall. But, compared to some basket ball players we are just dwarfs! I can still remember that a few years ago there was a player in the Russian team who was 239 centimeres tall, and any professional team today will have a few players who are above 200 centimeters.
Modern opinion is that the tallest recorded man of whom there is irrefutable evidence was Robert Pershing Wadlow. This giant of a man was born in 1918 in Alton, Illnois, a normal, healthy baby boy weighing 3.8 kilos. But at the age of two, after an operation, young Wadlow began to grow at an abnormally rapid rate. At the age of five he was 163 centimeres tall and at the age of nine he was so strong and big that he was able to carry his father up the stairs of the family home. On his 10th birthday he was 195 centimeres tall, and at the age of fourteen, 226 centimeres. Four years later, at the age of 18, Robert Wadlow stood 234 centimeres tall, and still kept growing. By his 21st birthday he had reached a height of a little more than 272 centimeres and was the tallest man recorded in medical history. His weight was 222.7 kilos, he wore 47 centimetre-long shoes and his hands measured 32.4 centimeres from the wrist to the top of the middle finger.
Wadlow’s rapid growth caused a problem with one foot on which he had to wear a heavy metal support or brace. Unfortunately, the brace caused an infection of his right ankle which eventually led to his death in 1940, at the age of 22. If he had lived longer, he would probably have reached or surpassed the height of 274 centimetres in a year’s time!
Megoldás:
1. He is 180 centimetres tall.
2. He was Russian .
3. He was born in 1918.
4. He had an operation.
5. He was able to carry his father up the stairs of the family home.
6. He was 272 centimetres tall.
7. His shoes were 47 centimetres long.
8. His (right) ankle.
9. He was 22 years old.