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My webmaster, Bill Simon, is coach of a Chinese dragon-boat team, based in Long Beach, CA. He sends link to a video of a close race in Vancouver last month:
Here is the 500M race for the medals in the Comp C division of the 2006 Vancouver (ALCAN) Dragon Boat festival that was held on June 18, 2006. Now you can actually see how close this race was.
LARD (Los Angeles Racing Dragons, our local rivals) came in first (in the lane 4th from the top). We, the Los Angeles Killer Guppies, (in the 3rd lane from the top) came in about 3/4 boat behind them--and that put us in 9th place! We were separated by less than 2.5 second! Our time was 2:09.
I know how intense this was for us on the boat. But now I know what the crowd experienced. This is the closest Dragon Boat race I've ever seen. Awesome! Congrats to LARD! But just wait till next year...
This is my kind of multiculturalism.
Posted by Rand Simberg at July 17, 2006 04:40 PM
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"This is my kind of multiculturalism."
Yay. Culture reduced and Disneyfied beyond recognition or connection with reality. Such progress.
Posted by Anon Mouse at July 18, 2006 09:21 AM
Nonny, your comment reduces and Disneyfies, beyond recognition or connection with reality, any valid point there might be underlying your unnecessarily hostile attitude.
Such progressiveness.
Posted by McGehee at July 18, 2006 09:51 AM
Any hostile attitude detected is a product of your own imagination - not of my writings.
Posted by Anon Mouse at July 18, 2006 06:21 PM
Anon says: Yay. Culture reduced and Disneyfied beyond recognition or connection with reality. Such progress.
Hmm, boat, water, race...I recognized that easily enough. I connected the reality of competition and the delighted cheers of the spectators. That is progress indeed. The only ones that might not make the connection might miss it yearning for the glory days gone by back when they could be physically active. Get a life Anon
Posted by Mac at July 18, 2006 07:50 PM
Dragon Boat racing, sounds cool, good excercise, some
cultural aspects.
Posted by anonymous at July 20, 2006 08:51 PM
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