Raging Dragons

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The Raging Dragons is a dragon boat club based in London, UK. The club trains at the Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre on the Isle of Dogs.

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The club competes in the BDA League, with Open, Mixed, and Women's crews. The team has a number of members who currently paddle for the Great Britain national Dragon Boat team. Celebrity Gok Wan has paddled with Raging Dragons and the team featured in episode 4 of his Gok Cooks Chinese TV show on Channel 4. [1] In 2012, the Raging Dragons paddled in the man-powered section of the flotilla in the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. [2] In 2012, the Raging Dragons supported the formation of Wave Walkers, London's first dragon boat team of cancer survivors.[ citation needed ]

History

The club was formed in 2002, based at the Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre in Millwall dock. It originally was a charity crew called "Chinese Professionals".

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  1. ↑ "Gok Cooks Chinese - 4oD - Channel 4". www.channel4.com. Archived from the original on 25 May 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2012-06-09. Retrieved 2012-06-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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