Strong winds, thunder, and showers posed big challenges to the participating athletes
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/04/16
By: Taiwan News, Staff Writer
(TECO-Boston photo)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Many of the more than 180 Taiwanese runners participating in this year’s Boston Marathon draped themselves in the national flag as they approached the finish line on Monday (April 15), local time, according to Central News Agency.
Temperatures during this year’s event were higher than at the start of last year’s event, which was at freezing 3 degrees Celsius, but strong winds, thunder and showers during this year’s event posed big challenges to the participating athletes, CNA said.
As is traditional, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston (TECO-Boston), Brookline Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce, and families of the Taiwanese runners, jointly set up a cheering station before the finish line to root for the country’s runners and give them national flags, according to a press release issued by TECO-Boston.
Of the Taiwanese runners, the oldest was 73-year-old Hu Teng-tsun (胡登村), who has participated in the Boston Marathon four years in a row, CNA reported.
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