Magic DragonTeam – Dragon Boat Race 2017 Report
On Saturday, June 10, 2017, 30 team members of the Magic Dragon
racing team arrived at Fanshawe Park, along with other 52 race teams, ready to
take on the FanshaweDragon Boat Race Festival 2017 which is organized by the
Rowbust Dragon Boat Racing Club. To top it off, we were greeted with perfect
weather.
Magic Dragon is organized by Chinese Canadian National Council, London Chapter
and London Chinese Association. Our goal is to embrace and participating inthe
Chinese traditional cultureactivities, promote Chinese heritage beyond Chinese
community. Our team consisted members with different cultural background.
In the 1st race, our official time was 2:55:81”, putting
our team in E division. We determined to try our best for the next
race. Our semi-final time was 2:59:98”,
putting us in the E-Consolation Division. In the final race, it was a very
close and exciting race that our team finished the race with 2nd place in E-ConsolationDivision.
Many thanks to our sponsors :
theTD Canada Trust ( Cherryhill branch,
Westmount branch, Baseline branch, and Dundas &Clerance branch)
Bangkok Pad Thai Restaurant location at 735
Richmond Street, there was a delicious hot lunch to fuel us.
We wish we can do it again next year!
Cinly Tang
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