- Man who spent years building Eiffel Tower with 700K matchsticks may be denied world record for using wrong matches NBC News
- Man’s 8-Year Labor of Love to Get Into Guinness Falls Flat Newser
- Dreams up in smoke: French council worker who spent eight years assembling 700,000 matchsticks into 23ft Eiffe Daily Mail
- Man builds Eiffel Tower model with 700,000 matchsticks over eight years only to have world record rejected Sky News
- I spent 8yrs making world’s tallest matchstick Eiffel Tower…only to be REJECTED for Guinness Record for ago… The US Sun