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Enter the dragon

credit: Georgie Read Perhaps it should. Since the creation of the Oklahoma River in 2004 and the designation of Oklahoma City National High Performance Center (NHPC) as an Olympic training site in 2009, water sports have become increasingly popular in the metro. Construction of the Devon and Chesapeake Boathouses has also helped spur interest in […]

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Dragon riders

In protest to the Chu Dynasty, Chinese poet and scholar Qu Yuan threw himself into the Mi Lo River. But so beloved was he by the local population, fishermen piled into boats and rowed furiously in tandem to try to save him. They did not succeed, but the sport of dragon boating was born. Centuries […]

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