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10,267 Chinese set new record for human domino chain

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Some 10,267 people made the world's longest human domino chain in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Thursday and will enter the Guinness Book of World Records, Guinness officials said.

Blow me down: More than 10,000 students break the human domino World Record in Ordos, China

The participants were mainly students from 12 high schools in Ordos City. The event took place at the Ordos Naadam Festival that runs from Aug. 11 to Aug. 18.

In sequence, each person fell backwards and lay on the next person's legs. The event took one hour and 20 minutes to complete.

At around 10:30 a.m., the new world record was created, Wu Xiaohong, a notary public for Guinness World Records, declared.

All fall down: The successful record attempt took one hour and 10 minutes.

Participants wore white or orange T-shirts, and those in orange formed the shape of five characters that signified "Beautiful Ordos" in a square 200 meters long and 150 meters wide.

"We practiced for four and a half hours each day for the last three days. Under the glaring sun, I hardly felt the guy behind me fiddle," said Li Xiaodong, who was the first human domino to fall.

The event began when Mengke Bateer, a Chinese basketball player formerly in the NBA, passed a basketball to Li Xiaodong at 9 a.m.

The previous record was set by 9,234 students at Siloso Beach, Singapore, on Sept. 30, 2000.

"While lying there, I thought about a lot of things. But what I felt most strongly was the pure excitement that came from knowing I was part of the creation a a world record," said Li.