This event "is an opportunity to pay tribute to history and tradition. It isabove all a festival commemorating the death of the great Qu Yuan a politician from the time of the Warring Kingdoms.

To find out more about the history of the dragon boat, go to our "Dragon Boat - History" page. 

 "As the Olympic motto says, 'Faster, higher, stronger and together', sport is an opportunity that enables us to unite, whatever our color, our sex, our nationality..."