Mayor’s competitors were Olympians Dominic Seitelle and Adam Kreek.
Oak Bay’s mayor outlasted two Olympic medallists on Sunday in choppy waters that cut short this year’s floating teacup race off Willows Beach.
Both Sietelle and Kreek are two-time Olympians and were part of a national rowing team that won gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Kreek blamed his performance on a pre-race meal. “The mushrooms I ate beforehand put me at a disadvantage,” he joked. Usually, contestants are able to make it further out in the water and around the Oak Bay Sea Rescue vessel that acts as a race-course marker, she said.Sunday’s inclement weather saw only about a hundred spectators. The lighthearted event has packed the beach in previous years.
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