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Image description: A river surrounded by fields and trees. I woke up as I would’ve normally, spooning myself a bowl of yogurt and granola as I clicked open my laptop to an infinitely black screen. This morning, the screen remained unchanged for far too long. My granola grew soggy as I clicked and held buttons […]
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Image Description: two dark blue cartoon oars on a light blue background. The crews for the annual Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge have been announced. This year’s race will be the first since 1944 not to take place on the Championship course, due to COVID-19 restrictions and safety concerns over Hammersmith Bridge. The race […]
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Image description: an eight on the river in Oxford, viewed from the river bank on a sunny day A boat full of college students, rowing down the stretch of the Isis in Christchurch Meadows, whilst the less sporty amongst us watch whilst drinking pimms is one of the more iconic ‘Oxford’ images of usual term […]
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The April 2021 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race will not be held on the River Thames for only the second time in the 165 year history of the event. Safety concerns about Hammersmith Bridge, which has been closed to river traffic since August, have forced the event to move to a 3 mile stretch of the River […]
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Amelia Standing represented the Dark Blues in this year’s Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race; the first-year engineer from St Anne’s College taking the position of stroke in the Women’s Blue Boat. Being the youngest of the crew, Amelia did not let only being in her first year at Oxford hinder her from representing the Dark […]
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Summer sports will soon be getting into full swing so here is a taste of what to expect! Athletics After great success in the FEAR/ Indoor Varsity, Athletics promises another exciting term. The 145th Varsity will be hosted away at Cambridge’s Wilberforce Road on 18th May. It will be a jam-packed day as Oxford looks […]
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Cambridge has comfortably won the 74th annual Women’s Boat Race following on from their victory last year. This takes the total wins to 44-30 in Cambridge’s favour and is their third victory in a row. Both boats started well, but Cambridge was able to quickly eke out an advantage after a powerful start. The gap […]
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The annual Oxford vs. Cambridge Boat Race, which will take place this Sunday 7th April, is perhaps the most widely watched university sporting event in Britain, drawing around a quarter of a million spectators to the banks of the Thames each year. Competition for one of eight seats and one coxswain position in each of […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingTrinity 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 […]
Continue ReadingCambridge 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 […]
Continue ReadingEvery 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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