Balloon Race around the World
From London to Sao Paulo, thousands of red balloons have been launched in an international balloon race to celebrate the launch of the second edition of the Macmillan English Dictionary.
Congratulations to the winner of the first prize in the Macmillan Dictionaries balloon race, Li Dongling, who launched a balloon in Beijing that travelled 927.3km to Jiangsu Province.Runners up:
Bernard Davis, Oxford, UK
Adrian Bucur, Bucharest, Romania
Rosangela Parlamento, Ponte Rasa, Brazil
Thank you to everyone who participated in the launch of the balloons, and to everyone who returned a ticket.
Please take a moment to look at some of the fantastic pictures taken at these events, and see how the launch of the MED2 was marked in some of the greatest cities in the world. Just click on a city below!
