(19 Jan 2025)
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Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, Argentina – 19 January 2025
1. Paddlers racing dragon boats
2. Paddlers paddling and screaming
3. Wide of paddlers
4. Dragon Boats floating with paddlers as race ends
5. Paddlers docking the boats
6. Paddlers rowing slowly to dock their boat
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Julieta Esmaiman, member of the ‘Ming’ Dragon Boat team:
"I believe it combines a sporting side, with all the cardio and strength it demands, with camaraderie. It’s a sport that makes us work together. It generates a great camaraderie both inside the team and with other teams too. It gets you hooked and you never want to leave it."
8. Wide of Dragon Boats racing
9. Paddlers rowing their boats head to head
10. Mariano Perez using his rudder to tur boat after the race
11. Mariano Perez warming up near boat
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Mariano Perez, member of ‘Raiders’ Dragon Boat team and owner of boat repair shop:
"It tends to create communion between us. It’s beautiful. lt helps to minimize individualism, because if you paddle better and another doesn’t… (it won’t work). Everyone has to level up their paddling. It forces you to work as a team and I really like that."
13. Paddlers racing
14. Dragon Boats arriving at dock
15. Paddlers hugging each other after competition
STORYLINE:
Dozens of Argentine paddlers competed in an amateur dragon-boat race in Buenos Aires on Sunday ahead of Chinese New Year celebrations next week.
The traditional Chinese sport, which arrived in Argentina as part of a cultural exchange between both countries, has been slowly gaining traction in the South American country.
"It’s a sport that makes us work together. It generates a great camaraderie both inside the team and with other teams too," said Julieta Esmaiman, a member of the ‘Ming’ Dragon Boat team who competed on Sunday.
"It gets you hooked and you never want to leave it."
Chinese dragon boats are long and colorful vessels rooted in over 2,000 years of tradition.
Their origins are tied to the legend of Qu Yuan, a poet who drowned himself in protest against corruption.
Villagers paddled out to save him, which evolved into the Dragon Boat Festival.
The boats, adorned with dragon heads and tails, symbolize strength and good fortune.
Video by Cristian Kovadloff
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