A granny takes a penalty during a training session in Nkowankowa Township, outside Tzaneen in the Limpopo province. World Cup fever has spread to South African grannies, with hundreds of poor, elderly women in aprons and skirts fighting for the ball in township games. Twice a week they swap domestic chores for football, donning soccer boots instead of their usual rubber sandals to play in local matches.. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
Kimani Maruge attends class at Kapkenduiywo Primary School in Langas, Eldoret, 300km west of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The classmates ten times his junior would be hard-pressed to match the enthusiasm of Maruge, 86, a peasant farmer, now has the distinction of being the oldest pupil on the planet according to the Guinness Book of World Records.. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Participants receive flowers during a performance during the “Your Highness Grandmother” pageant in Brooklyn. Some 15 grandmothers, virtually all drawn from Brooklyn’s close-knit Russian immigrant community of Brighton Beach, sang, danced & even vamped across the stage at a local nightspot as they competed for the pageant’s top honors of Ms. Grandmother and Ms. Queen Grandmother.. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Bodybuilder Ray Moon (C), who is turning 80 this year, competes in the Victorian Bodybuilding Championships in Melbourne. Aged almost 80, Moon has overcome polio, open-heart surgery, prostate problems and financial ruin to become an Australian body building champion.. REUTERS/Mick Tsikas
Unbeknownst to many of her peers, 70-year-old Sainte-Hilaire, MTV’s “senior” video game correspondent and star of the blog “Old Grandma Hardcore,” is a sensation in video game circles.. REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk
Pornographic movie actor Shigeo Tokuda poses during the shooting of his latest film in Ichikawa, east of Tokyo. Tokuda is Japan’s oldest pornographic movie star and is shooting his latest film in which he portrays a master of sex.. REUTERS/Kim Kyung Hoon
British DJ Ruth Flowers, 69 year-old, mixes music at a recording studio in Paris. Flowers, a British grandmother turned disc jockey, is conquering French night clubs and festivals with her mix of old-school hits, electro beats and bling-bling style, and she is working on a single, due to be released this spring.. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
Web-blogger Maria Amelia Lopez holds a laptop in Sanxenxo. At the age of 95 Lopez has surprised herself by a sudden conversion from Web-illiterate to cybercelebrity.. REUTERS/Miguel Vidal
One-hundred-year old Peggy McAlpine paraglides off a 2,500-foot (762-metre) mountain peak in Kyrenia, northern Cyprus. The self confessed “daredevil” leaped into record booksby paragliding off the mountain peak.. REUTERS
Artin Elmayan bounces a ball using a tennis racket in Buenos Aires.Elmayan, who emigrated to Argentina from Europe when it was on the verge of war in 1938 at the age of 21, said he took up tennis as a hobby and has never looked back. Now, aged 95, he is the world’s oldest-ranked player.. REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian
