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Paul "Dizzy Hips" Blair sets a world record doing the largest circumference hoola hoop in Bellevue, Washington. Blair, a hoola hoop fanatic for 14 years, set three world records: a mile run while doing a hoola hoop (7:47), a 10K while doing a hoola hoop (1:06:35) and doing the largest hoola hoop (43 feet in circumference) at least three times. (Saturday, June 21, 2003)

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