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Image description: Outside the University sport centre at Iffley Road Now that Michaelmas has drawn to a close, the Oxford Student takes a look back on a couple of the ups and downs of University sport this term. Last month saw a harsh 15-0 defeat for the Oxford women’s rugby team, who faced Cambridge in the […]
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Image description: A close-up of a football pitch The Newcastle United takeover is just the latest move by foreign investors attempting to gain a slice of the seemingly endless sums of money in European football. With fans increasingly disillusioned with the game at the highest level, non-league is providing a return to ‘the good old […]
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Image description: A view of Wembley stadium, home of the England football team San Marino 0 — 10 England For the first time since 1964, England hit double figures as they sailed through to qualification for the 2022 World Cup. A fortnight ago, Southgate’s lions roared like never before with a merciless 10-0 demolition of […]
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Image description: Text ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ on a red background with illustrations of kitchen utensils This breaded snack is a culinary joy that many crave but few can have. A successful football team with its sugary flavour of conquering the rest, soft crumb of overcoming past adversity and its moist texture of bragging rights is an […]
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Image description: Fans at St James’ Park, the Newcastle United FC stadium, c. 1989 In the English premier league, three moments stand out as historic turning points for the commercial side of the competition. The first is its inception, the story of which is a meeting between the new Thatcherite chairmen of the clubs who […]
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Image description: A golf course After a decade dominated by team Europe, the Americans stormed to a triumphant victory at Whistling Straits in their strongest showing since 1975. The United States team, their youngest ever, became the first in modern times to reach 19 points — while the Europeans managed just 9. The Ryder Cup […]
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Image description: sunrise over Port Meadow Bubble… bubble…breathe. Arms stretching out, thwacking, slashing, gliding. You see nothing except your pale hands pushing down into the black void below. Your freezing brain seems to thrash around in your skull as you rotate to breathe on either side. Long weeds creep up from below to wrap themselves […]
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Image description: An American football coach makes an angry gesture When we talk about sports coaches, we think of mentorship. We think of the life-changing coaches, the ones that create legends with belief and hard work. Of course, they are the foundations of every sport and are worth celebrating, but we don’t often talk about the […]
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Image description: Villa Park stadium Aston Villa 1 – 1 Brentford Saturday 28th August Villa Park erupted. In the thirteenth minute, Emiliano Buendia slotted home a cool, crisp finish from the edge of the box. A collective euphoria descended upon this most traditional of British football stadia that has stood stubbornly since 1897. Finally, as […]
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Image description: Tokyo in 2021 with the Olympic Rings visible. The 32nd Olympic Games have drawn to a close in Tokyo after a fortnight-long sporting bonanza. As we have come to expect, the Opening Ceremony saw a festival of light and colour: a celebration both of Japanese culture and of what Thomas Bach, President of […]
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Image Description: The Women’s Rowing team at the 1908 Olympics. Sometimes they are undercover. You think: this man is so bad at football/hockey/cricket/swimming, that there is no way that he would sit in a sports bar during the ACTUAL Olympics making ‘insightful’ judgments about female athletes. It’s always so disappointing to find out that you […]
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Image Description: View of the Radcliffe camera (left) and cartoon of a woman holding giant rapid Covid-19 test (right) The University has recorded 3 positive cases out of 39 tests taken between 13th and 19th March, down from 6 in the previous week. Further, twice-weekly asymptomatic testing arrangements are confirmed to be in place from […]
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Image description: misty running tracks 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the Oxford Student, and in recognition of this landmark, we in the Sports Team would like to take you back three decades, to have a look at the sort of things we would have been commenting on back then, in the […]
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Oxford University Hockey Club has successfully appealed the University ban on sports fixtures with teams from outside of Oxford. The guidance, which prohibits teams from travelling to matches or hosting teams from outside Oxford, was issued by the University’s Silver Group to all teams affiliated with the University. Collegiate matches are still permitted to take […]
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Some sporting individuals are remembered in a single snapshot. Tommie Smith’s black-clad fist in Mexico, Francois Pienaar’s handshake with Mandela in Johannesburg, Ben Stokes’ tribalistic roar at Leeds. Some are immortalised through totemic achievements. Ronnie O’Sullivan’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it maximum in Sheffield, Roger Bannister’s four-minute mile in Oxford, Nadia Comaneci’s perfect 10 in Montreal. Some remain etched […]
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It is always potentially hazardous to open a discussion which seeks to decide once and for all who is the best in a certain sporting category. Messi or Ronaldo? Hamilton or Schumacher? Biles or Comaneci? Titles and achievements are compared, difficulty of opponents assessed, and memories recalled. If things get heated, each point is hurled […]
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Over the Christmas period, several sports teams have been planning and carrying out fundraisers in order to support the local and wider community. At the beginning of last year, the University Sports Federation opened the University pool at Iffley Gym to elderly residents of Oxford in an attempt to give back to those who make […]
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At the arrival of a new decade, it seemed sensible to the Oxford Student to cast our eyes towards the sporting treats awaiting us in the upcoming year. Here is your definitive (-ish) top ten sporting events to be aware of in 2020: Rugby League Ashes, 31 October – 14 November Not seen since 2003, […]
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When trying to decide which gym is best to sign up to, it can be really confusing to troll through all of the advertisements and promotions that fill your inboxes, especially at this time of the year. As a fresher, I signed up to a gym just by clicking on the first link that came […]
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