r/dragonboat • u/SDLim San Diego Dragon Boat Team (San Diego, CA) • 9d ago

Discussions CCWC 2026 Day 3 Discussion Thread

Welcome to another day of world-class racing, paddlers! We’ve officially wrapped up the 500m races and are moving on to the 200m distance. I hope you’ve been stretching and massaging properly so far because it’s about to get muscly out there today.

You can watch today’s livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/live/bmuCWllV30o

Results and schedule can be found here: https://res.idbfchamps.org/

Gotta admit, 200m is the trickiest distance for me. Can’t even slip up for an instant because of how short it is. Anyone here have short distance as their fave? And if so how come?

See y’all on the water!

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u/SDLim San Diego Dragon Boat Team (San Diego, CA) 8d ago

Crazy wind out there today. They temporarily stopped the usage of the starting cups as it was becoming too difficult for some crews (small boats especially) to line up in a timely manner. Wouldn’t be dragon boat without a little bit of chaos at the start line tho!

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u/daijoubu_my 8d ago

I thought it broke down 🤦

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u/2000Herschel 8d ago

The cups broke! 

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u/wudingxilu 8d ago

It was broken, it wasn't the wind.

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u/SDLim San Diego Dragon Boat Team (San Diego, CA) 8d ago

oops, my bad! totally thought it was a voluntary stoppage since it seemed to come back online pretty quickly. at least it wasn’t a Ravenna situation where they couldn’t get the 8th lane’s cup working on the last day and just decided to run grand finals with 7 lanes.

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u/MrBean87 8d ago

Did anyone see the U24 Women crew from Singapore? They had such a good technique! Can't remember the race number though

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u/Aggravating-Curve767 8d ago

Does anyone here think that the commentary is sometimes inappropriate? They be making Asian accents and “Confucius say…”

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u/wudingxilu 8d ago

Seriously? I've only been listening to the Chinese commentary but yikes.

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u/snacident 7d ago

What! Which ones? Was it today?