Overview
- Thousands of people gathered along Paseo de la Reforma on Saturday to perform coordinated practice runs and multiple waves in an attempt to set a new record for the Mexican wave.
- Mexico City cultural authorities posted on social media that the largest human wave had been broken and gave video and documentation to Guinness World Records for formal assessment.
- Guinness already recognizes a largest-by-participants wave of 157,574 at a 2008 U.S. event, and officials say the agency will analyze timing, continuity and participant counts before confirming any new record.
- Organizers framed the event as a 40th-anniversary commemoration of the wave’s rise to fame at the 1986 World Cup and as a welcoming spectacle for incoming fans while city agencies step up security for matches starting June 11.
- If Guinness confirms the claim the result could boost Mexico’s World Cup publicity and national pride, while a decision against certification would shift attention back to the practical tasks of crowd control and stadium rules.