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World record awarded for matchstick Eiffel Tower after decision U-turn (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

He began building the tower by cutting the red, sulphur tops off commercial matches - but soon realised this would be a long and tedious process.

After contacting the manufacturer, Mr Plaud was sent kilos of plain wooden matches, and carried on building his model.

Mr Plaud, from Montpellier-de-Médillan in western France, completed the tower on 27 December and contacted GWR to authenticate his work.

He was later told it had been rejected as only "commercially available" matches qualified for a record-breaker - but on Thursday, the organisation changed its mind.

Mr Plaud hopes to put his tower on display in Paris for the Olympics in July.

The previous world record was held by Toufic Daher from Lebanon, who built a 6.53m (21ft) Eiffel Tower in 2009.

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