115,000 pair make the word’s longest chain of bras in Cyprus
Women on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus created the world’s longest chain of bras of Sunday, linking together 114,782 of the garments covering 111 km (70 miles), organisers said.
The group of Dutch, British and Cypriot organisers took nearly nine hours to create the chain at the harbour in the resort of Paphos, following a year of painstaking planning.
Their success will shove Singapore, which had held the record since 2003 with 79,000 bras, off the top spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Women from as far afield as Alaska, Brazil, Martinique and Iran contributed bras to the record attempt, aimed at raising awareness of breast cancer.
Breast cancer kills about 400,000 women worldwide each year. Doctors say regular screening, particularly for women over 50, is vital for early detection crucial to survival rates.
“We have a fairly good response rate (to screening) of about 70 percent, but it could be higher,” said Vassilis Tanos, an oncologist. Negligence on the part of the individual was an overriding factor on why response levels were not better, he said.
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