Egyptian trainees practice paddling during a dragon boat training on the Nile in Cairo, Egypt, on Wednesday. They are members of the five teams of the Egyptian Dragon Boat Culture Experience Base set up in 2016. The teams take four training courses each week. The 2,000-year-old Chinese dragon boat racing was brought to Egypt about five years ago by Ehab Gouda, who was interested in the sport and co-founded a dragon boat academy in Egypt with his wife Mary Lai, who is from China’s Hong Kong.Xinhua |