its use, along with the idiom good egg with which it is sometimes confused, is frowned upon by the Metropolitan Police on the grounds of it being derogatory and rhyming slang for "coon". Records A number of world records in egg-and-spoon racing are held by New Yorker and serial record-holder Ashrita Furman; these include, as published by Guinness World Records, fastest 100 metre egg-and-spoon race (now 16.59 seconds by Australian Sally Pearson, set in 2013 in Sydney); fastest 100 metre egg-and-spoon race while holding the spoon in the mouth (25.13 seconds); fastest mile egg-and-spoon race (7 minutes, 8 seconds); fastest mile egg-and-spoon race holding the spoon with both hands (8 minutes, 5 seconds); and fastest mile egg-and-spoon race holding the spoon in the mouth (9 minutes, 29 seconds). In 1990 a runner completed the London Marathon in three hours forty-seven minutes while carrying a dessert spoon with an uncooked egg balanced upon it. British Olympic heptathlete and gold-medal winner Denise Lewis cites victory aged six in a thirty-metre egg-and-spoon race as the origin of her sporting ambitions; she advises all young athletes "concentrate, have fun with it and do your best". See also Egg dance Humpty Dumpty Amateur sports References Eggs in culture Children's sport Children's games School sport in the United Kingdom Novelty running Spoons