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Oxford University Boat Club (OUBC) and Women’s Boat Club (OUWBC) announced their crews for the upcoming Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race at City Hall in London this morning. The Oxford women’s crew go into the race with a crew 9.5 kg lighter than their Cambridge counterparts, while the men’s crew outweighed the Cambridge crew by just 1.3kg. In […]
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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has announced Wednesday that they will be the official charity partner of The Boat Race 2019. The teams are in the midst of training for the rival match against Cambridge along the 6.8 kilometre stretch of the River Thames in south-west London. Thousands of people come to watch the […]
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Image Credit: Keith Levit Photography Katherine Copeland has retired from rowing after an eleven year career that, although brief, is decorated with various medals and historical achievements. She caught the media’s eye when she brought home the first Olympic gold for Great Britain’s women’s lightweight team in the summer of 2012 at the London Olympics. Copeland […]
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Sports Editor Connor Thirlwell, who doesn’t row, wonders about rowing, and why people do it I high-tail down past Christchurch Meadows to the Boathouse Walk for some light research. It’s a bright, blue-sky mid-morning, to be filled in a few days’ time with the fervour of the Summer 8s rowing competition. It starts on Wednesday […]
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Trinity Term is here and a new summer season of sport begins, making the next couple of months as fine a time as any to get outside in the sun for an hour or two a week and get active! With Varsity matches for Netball, Hockey, Football, Fencing, Rowing, and Real Tennis all taking place […]
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Before I started at Oxford, I was considering taking up rowing. My reasons were not the usual ones. Due to some fairly unique circumstances, contact sport and anything that involves depth perception are pretty much off the table to me. That essentially leaves athletics, swimming or rowing as my options for team exercise, and as […]
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Keble students have voted by a very small margin to oppose the proposed burning of a boat on the college’s front quad in the event that the men’s or women’s first crew finish Head of the River this week. In the JCR, 120 were in favour of burning the boat, with 123 opposing the boat-burning […]
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Keble College faces opposition after provisionally approving the burning of a boat on its front quad ahead of this year’s Summer Eights regatta. During a meeting of the college’s Governing Body, the decision was taken to allow Keble College Boat Club (KCBC) to burn an old boat in the middle of the college’s Liddon Quad […]
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Trinity Term is an exciting time to be alive and in Oxford. With the weather warming up, the flowers in bloom, the punts floating down the river, and the flurry of students with carnations pinned to their subfusc running around town, there is plenty of fun stuff to do to relieve pending exam stress, and […]
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Cambridge has won the 72nd women’s boat race, setting a new time record, while Oxford fought to maintain a narrow lead in the 163rd men’s. While the Cambridge women’s boat set an astonishing time of 18:33- the first time the 19-minute mark has been broken- the Oxford boat suffered an early crab, which left a lead that […]
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Every weekend it’s the same story. I have to run back home at noon to change into weird clothes that I wouldn’t wear in the city. If you walk by Isis, you would notice jackets of some boat clubs of the colleges. Leggings become clothes that both genders can wear. Long socks are no more […]
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With the 2016 Rio Olympics just days away, members of Team GB will be completing their final preparations ahead of the competition. Amongst the team are a number of Oxonians – here are the ones with the best shot of a medal. Andrew Triggs-Hodge MBE Rower Andrew Triggs-Hodge is no stranger to the Olympics, having […]
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The Presidents for the famous Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race have recently been announced. Henry Hoffstot and Hannah Roberts have been elected for the Cambridge clubs, and will attempt to overturn a run of consecutive Oxford wins. Henry Hoffstot will be in his third season at the CUBC, twice having stroked the Cambridge Blue Boat. The summer before […]
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Thanks to my objectivity as resident Not-Very-Sporty-Person, I was able to observe the phenomenon of the metamorphosis of the boys on the men’s teams into Manly Man Rowers. The process begins harmlessly enough: in race week, the flock of Manly Manlings first schedule their daily post-rowing trips to Mission Burrito, and insist on proudly showing […]
Continue ReadingThis year’s Torpids has been cancelled due to unsafe rowing conditions following heavy weeks of heavy rainfall. The news comes after yet another weekend of rain raised water levels on the river Isis to an unsafe height. Torpids, a four day Hilary term rowing bumps event, was due to take place at the end of […]
Continue ReadingWay back in the autumn of 2010, I went for my first proper rowing outing. I was excited to be in Oxford, and rowing was one of the first activities on my list of ‘must tries’. (To reassure my regular readers – the second thing on the list was much less nerdy and probably the […]
Continue Reading[yop_poll id=”8″] Proposition – Felix Chow If there is one thing that Oxford students lack, it is the time to enjoy the many things the university has to offer. So why would students with essay crises and Prelims want to spend so much of their free time rowing? For those who choose to take up […]
Continue ReadingAlex Tyndall reports on the annual rowing highlight that is Summer VIIIs
Continue ReadingOn June 1st, Oxford resident Steve Paterson and his crew of four row 2000 miles non-stop around Britain’s coast, starting from Tower Bridge. In total, six crews in rowing boats and one team in a pedalo will compete for a new world record in the world’s toughest rowing race. The current male world record stands […]
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