Article: DRAGON BOAT RACING: First for boat club.(Sport)

Article: FESTIVAL PADDLES MORE THAN FIERCE DRAGON BOAT ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  July 30, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... ubiquitous water dragons. And so, dragon boat racing was born. "It's an opportunity ... Wen Hsu said. "We use the dragon boat racing to attract people - people ... sporting aspect. She said some dragon boat racing events around the country have ...

Article: Teens get a lesson in leadership learning the Chinese tradition ...
Daily Breeze;  July 2, 2005 ;     682 words ... ... slithering through the water. Dragon boat racing, a form of competitive rowing ... none of them had even heard of dragon boat racing before the Boys and Girls Club ... stroke in unison is key to dragon boat racing. Unlike other rowing sports ...

Article: Frantic search for ancient Chinese poet evolves into ...
AP Worldstream;  October 29, 2005 ;     662 words ... ... About 2,300 years later, dragon boat racing is a full-fledged international ... uniformity of strokes. But dragon boat racing relies mainly on upper body ... moved to Macau. The roots of dragon boat racing are in ancient China. When ...

Article: Macao to promote dragon-boat racing in ...
Xinhua News Agency;  June 5, 2003 ;     484 words ...Macao to promote dragon-boat racing in formal sport games MACAO ... Xinhua) -- Macao will recommend dragon-boat racing as a formal sport item in the ... take the chance to introduce dragon- boat racing into the formal sport games ...

Article: Charity dragon boat racing needs you! ; ...
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  July 16, 2008 ;     384 words ...Teams are wanted for charity dragon boat racing at Exeter Quay. Charity Dream-A-Way, which sends ... difficulties on holidays and day trips, is holding its first dragon boat race and is asking for companies and individuals to ...

Article: Dragon boat racing was badly publicised ; ...
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  May 22, 2009 ;     339 words ...Over the weekend we had dragon boat racing at Exeter Quay with little or no publicity. Gone this year were the notices of what is on at the quay, no mention on Exeter City ...

Article: Dragon boat racing skyrockets
Winnipeg Free Press;  November 1, 2006 ;     663 words ... ... Dave Battistuzzi believes the sport of dragon boat racing can grow even more. His theory is based ... year, as well as the 2006 River City Dragon Boat Festival. For the uninitiated, dragon boat racing is a team sport in which 20 people paddle ...