{"id":172,"date":"2016-08-02T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/long-beach-officers-place-third-at-annual-dragon-boat-racing-weekend-event\/"},"modified":"2016-08-02T00:01:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T00:01:31","slug":"long-beach-officers-place-third-at-annual-dragon-boat-racing-weekend-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/long-beach-officers-place-third-at-annual-dragon-boat-racing-weekend-event","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Officers Place Third at Annual Dragon Boat Racing Weekend Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-49799\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Team_Finest_Dragon_Boat.jpg\" alt=\"Team Finest Dragon Boat\" width=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of LBPD.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In their first attempt at dragon boat racing, a group of Long Beach officers snagged a third place finish, beating their own expectations over the weekend at Long Beach&#8217;s Marine Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one expected us to place third in division three,\u201d said Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) Officer Cham Sok, one of the team\u2019s organizers. \u201cWe gave it everything we got and moved up from the lowest division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FLongBeachPD.CA%2Fposts%2F1056533574424685&amp;width=500\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"500\" height=\"645\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The members of \u201cTeam Finest\u201d were expected to race in the fourth division since everyone, except for Sok, was new to the event. However, after placing second in the first race, the team was moved up a division, Sok said.<\/p>\n<p> <center> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Supporting &#8220;Team Finest&#8221; LBPD at Long Beach Dragon Boat Festival.. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LongBeachPD_CA\">@LongBeachPD_CA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joinlbpd\">@joinlbpd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LBPD?src=hash\">#LBPD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AAhjumWi1Y\">pic.twitter.com\/AAhjumWi1Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 joinlbpd (@joinlbpd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joinlbpd\/status\/759448775802753024\">July 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\"><\/script> <\/center> <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbdragonboat.com\/index.php\">Long Beach Dragon Boat Festival<\/a> is held every July at Marine Stadium. According to its website, it is described as an amateur water sport rooted in ancient southern Chinese folk ritual, and has existed as a competition for over the past 2000 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile \u2018competition\u2019 has taken place annually for more than 20 centuries as part of religious ceremonies and folk customs, dragon boat racing has emerged in modern times as an international sport,\u201d the website stated.<\/p>\n<p> <center> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to LBPD &#8220;Team Finest&#8221; for taking 3rd Place at LB Dragon Boat Race. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LongBeachPD_CA\">@LongBeachPD_CA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/joinlbpd?src=hash\">#joinlbpd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ACaeNXQOhp\">pic.twitter.com\/ACaeNXQOhp<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 joinlbpd (@joinlbpd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joinlbpd\/status\/759897795578900481\">July 31, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\"><\/script> <\/center> <\/p>\n<p>The two-day event also featured Chinese traditional art demonstrations, Chinese acrobats, traditional dance and martial arts performances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are super excited about how we did and definitely want to do it again next year and go for better,\u201d Sok said.<\/p>\n<p> <center> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats to LBPD&#8217;s &#8220;Team Finest&#8221; 3rd Place in Div 3B at the Dragonboat Festival! Great effort for a 1st year team. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mJGT0zhxgX\">pic.twitter.com\/mJGT0zhxgX<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Long Beach PD (@LongBeachPD_CA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LongBeachPD_CA\/status\/759914377877127168\">August 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\"><\/script> <\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their first attempt at dragon boat racing, a group of Long Beach officers snagged a third place finish, beating their own expectations over the weekend at Long Beach&#8217;s Marine Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":16517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","pmpro_default_level":0,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","footnotes":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[85],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}