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Swiss giant greeting card hung in front of dam makes it into Guinness Book of World Records

Quatre Vallées, Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A giant good luck winter sports card aimed at Swiss athletes, with 3,645 signatures, has been accepted by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest greeting card. It was strung across the Lac de Creuson dam, at 2,000 metres, in January, ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

It measures 43×64 metres and AlpIQ, the electricity company that has sponsored it, registered it for the Guinness Book of World Records. The previous record-holder was 11×28, in Stockholm.

Shopping bags that are a copy of the huge banner are sold on www.fanpower.ch, with buyers entered in a contest for day ski passes and a trip to the World Cup ski finals in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Austria.

Posted by Ellen Wallace on 23 February 2010 at 15:37 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 23 February 2010.

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