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Filipino community in P.E.I. boosts dragon boat racing with new event
Social Sharing For the first time in several years, dragon boats skimmed across the waters of Charlottetown Harbour over the weekend. Members of P.E.I.'s Filipino community organized the races as a way to boost the sport on the Island, and to raise money for charity, Make-A-Wish Canada. Vladimir Iscala, chair of the Charlottetown Dragon Boat Festival, began racing dragon boats over 20 years ago in his home country of the Philippines. When he moved to Charlottetown in 2021, he saw an opportunity to bring the sport back to Prince Edward Island and contribute to his new community. "We have a big community of Filipinos living here in Charlottetown and some of them know dragon boats and [are] very familiar with the sport," Iscala said. "It creates the community engagement… and it promotes wellness and it also creates a great bond between the people, the cultures, regardless of where [they] came from." Dragon boat racing got its start in southern China about 2,000 years ago, and Iscala said it's also big in the Filipino community. He hopes to make the Charlottetown festival an annual event. Saturday's races drew nine teams, each with 16 rowers and one drummer, who's responsible for making sure the paddlers all stay in rhythm — a piece of teamwork that's key to dragon boat racing. The organizers also supplied each registered team with a boat and all the necessary equipment, which was trucked to Charlottetown by the Montreal-based company 22Dragons. A licensed and certified coach provided the teams with one hour of training before the event. Shelley Hughes made the trip to Charlottetown from her home dragon boat club in St. Andrews, N.B. While her team wanted to remain competitive, Hughes said attending the P.E.I. event was more about introducing people to the sport her club has grown to love over the past six years since it was founded. "We wanted to come and support the Charlottetown group so that dragon [boating] can be reinvigorated here on the Island," she said. 'Feels like home' Dragon boat races have been held in P.E.I. in years past, perhaps most notably when Prince William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, began a friendly racing rivalry at Dalvay during their first international tour in 2011. That same spirit of good-natured competition is what got Leo Buan out on the waters in Charlottetown on Saturday. He moved to Canada from the Philippines five years ago, but had already taken part in competitive dragon boat racing in his home country and in Singapore. When he heard about the festival, he convinced his co-workers to put in a team.
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'Just an honour': Gavin Baggs of Paradise wins N.L.'s first medal at the 2025 Canada Games
The first medals of the Canada Games were handed out at the Aquarena on Sunday, with a member of Team N.L. taking home silver. The CBC's Alex Kennedy was poolside, and has this report.
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Canadian ski jumper Abigail Strate wins summer Grand Prix competition
Canadian ski jumper Abigail Strate won gold at a Summer Grand Prix event Sunday for the first international victory of her career. The Calgarian finished first on the large HS135 hill with 108.8 points. The result came a day after she took bronze. 'It is a little upgrade from yesterday,' said the 24-year-old Strate. 'I'm still kind of overwhelmed with everything going on. I've never heard the Canadian anthem played on the podium for myself, so I was bawling my eyes out. 'It was really good today. I'm so happy.' Germany's Selina Freitag took the silver medal with 108.3 points and Japan's Nozomi Maruyama picked up bronze with 105.5. It was the first victory for a Canadian ski jumper at Courchevel since Alexandra Pretorius won in 2012. Alex Loutitt was eighth and Nicole Maurer, also from Calgary, was 17th. Ski jumping is performed in the summer on an in-run where the tracks are made from porcelain and the grass on the slope is covered with water-soaked plastic. In the first round, athletes jumped in groups of five with the top two in each group advancing to the second round. Each of the top-20 competitors who headed back to the top of the hill started with zero points for the second round. 'I've been close (to winning) a bunch of times, but I always seem to have found a way to mess it up,' Strate said. 'It was a great feeling today, knowing you are done your job for the day, and I couldn't do anything better. It is amazing.' The next stop on the Summer Grand Prix circuit begins Saturday in Wisla, Poland.
