How Hong Kong’s all-female Renegades dragon-boating team is making waves

Roberta Di Fazio Camilleri knows the importance of having single-gendered teams in sport – especially for women.
The founder and captain of the successful all-female dragon-boat team the Renegades did not find her tribe by mistake, but by recognising what was missing in the sport. “My friends and I wanted to race competitively at Stanley.

We’d met in a team that was more concerned with the social side of things than podium finishes and, over time, we’d become more ambitious,” she says.

“We...