Dragonboat Festival 2008

Team Austria was among the favourites... We were all up early, standing and waiting at Central ferry pier to be picked up by our team junk boat at 6:30am!! to do some warm up paddling before the big race day. Unfortunately our junk captain was sleeping good and arrived several 10 minutes late around 8:30am!! We missed our first race. Our chance to compete in the finals were gone. However, the one race we had left in the qualifications (at 3:30pm!!) we rowed like an orchestra on ecstasy, in such a rhythm and power that we finished on the podium on 3rd position after leading the group of dragon boats over 3/4 of the distance ;))) I can tell you, far from our expectations ;)