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Record archive5/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Team Rubio, as Puerto Rico’s team is known, almost adopted another hair color this year. “Let’s always support our guys,” Tomas Nieves, a 22-year-old air conditioning technician, said in a low whisper, explaining that he was nervous about all the attention. 161, the man responsible for breaking the record, walked in to the applause and yells of those gathered. More than five hours after Friday’s event began, participant No. Organizers of the event had eight hours to beat the previous record, set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in March 2013 when 160 people dyed their hair. He walked out nearly an hour later with a baseball cap on. “It depends on how it looks,” he said with a laugh. The World Baseball Classic just started, but Davidowski was not sure how long he would stay a blond. “I wasn’t going to do it, but my colleagues pressured me into it,” said William Davidowski, a 51-year-old with naturally dark brown hair who works at the insurance company that helped organize the event. Participants sat in an outdoor area for up to 45 minutes wearing plastic shower caps as they laughed at each other, took selfies and observed themselves in their smartphones as colorists came by and peeked under the shower caps. ![]() “If you can’t really see a change, it doesn’t count,” she said. Guinness World record adjudicator Natalia Ramirez said that a handful were disqualified because they already had white or graying hair. Some were disqualified for various reasons, including that they did not take the obligatory “before” picture. He was one of more than 200 men who showed up for the mass bleaching event on Friday. ![]()
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