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Image Description: Telemarker skiing on mountain covered in snow People often think that alpine skiing – the most popular type, where the whole foot is attached to the ski, and the two skis are parallel to one another – is descended from Nordic cross-country skiing. This is true, as cross-country skis have been used for […]
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Image Description: Personal Training at Gym – Press Ups On the 25th March it will be exactly six years since the Government launched the Mental Health in Sport Initiative. This moment was critical for so many reasons, but most importantly it represented the first-time 20+ sporting organisations, ranging from the Rugby Football Union to the […]
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“It’s a strange world. Some people get rich, others eat shit and die” – Hunter S. Thompson For Charles Barkley, former professional basketball player turned sports analyst, those who are rich seemingly ‘deserve’ to be protected from the prospect of ever joining the masses of shit-eaters at the bottom of the pile. Speaking on TNT, Barkley […]
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Image Description: “Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF90, holds off Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W10, 2019 Italian Grand Prix, Monza, 8th September” The 2020 Formula One season made history from the very start when the opening round in Melbourne was cancelled mere hours before Friday practice due to the coronavirus, which would go on to shorten the […]
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Image Description: San Francisco 49ers kneel during the National Anthem Are politics and sport really that inseparable? Or should we view the sporting arena as a platform that inevitably and rightly is used to further social progress? After the US boycott of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Avery Brundage, the acting International Olympic Committee President during WWII, […]
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Image Description: A humble few basketball fans sit scattered around a court, waiting for a game. Basketball For many North Americans, the first signs of COVID-19 impacting them actually came via the NBA. What was supposed to be an ordinary Wednesday night of basketball suddenly turned into breaking news when Utah Jazz superstar Ruby Gobert tested […]
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Image Description: Members of Oxford University Swimming Club jump into a pool to celebrating Oxford University has today announced that the Iffley Road sports facility will not be used for teaching and academic purposes in the upcoming Michaelmas term. This comes after a student petition was signed by over 1,500 students protesting the potential change […]
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Image description: A sprinter crouching before beginning a race. A petition signed by hundreds of students has been circulated widely following news that the University is considering plans to turn Iffley Road Sports Centre into academic spaces for the new term. The Sports Federation, in an email sent to all sports club committee members on […]
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Sunday of 4th week saw four members of Wadham Women’s* Weightlifting travel to Stourbridge for the West-Midlands BDFPA Regionals, with the hope of hitting the qualifying weights to make it to Nationals in Edinburgh this summer. This was the first time competing for all four women, but the wonderful and experienced Catherine Walter, World Full […]
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Sunday 12th May saw the university Ladies’ golf team face off against the Ladies section of Huntercombe GC. The fixture, organised by former captain Emma Whiteley, saw six singles matches take place in glorious sunshine. After a fine day at a golf course in sublime condition, the result was a diplomatic tie of 3-3. All […]
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On Sunday, I dragged myself to the start line of the Town and Gown race in Oxford. Having not gone to Wadstock the night before, I had convinced myself that I had an advantage on some of my fellow racers. Perhaps this advantage was necessary, given the sheer lack of training I had put in […]
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It’s an undertaking many would find daunting, to say the least – with the shortest route clocking in at 21 miles, the swim across the English Channel is not your average Varsity challenge. OUSC (Oxford University Swimming Club) captain on the women’s side Lauren Burton is one of a team of five who participated in […]
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In a college named Kellogg, good food is expected. Rumoured to have a cereal bar stocked with cornflakes, and occasionally known as “Corpus Crispy”, this graduate college rightly has a reputation for the best food in Oxford. A cluster of Victorian houses marks out the college, which is tucked alongside Banbury Road. Kellogg functions as […]
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 […]
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Rio de Janeiro plays host to this year’s Summer Olympic Games, and the excitement is already building. Thousands of athletes from around the world will descend on the Brazilian city in early August, competing in events that span 28 different sports and 41 distinct disciplines across more than two weeks of non-stop athletic competition. […]
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It would come as little surprise if the Rod Laver Arena was soon re-named as the ‘Djokovic Exhibition Court’, such is the dominance the world number one has achieved on the Australian Open’s premium court. Five titles in the past six years, and just one defeat on the hallowed blue turf. The latest was concluded […]
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On the 24th of January, 47 000 expectant fans piled into the MCG, that mecca of cricket supporters the world over, to watch the culmination of 5 weeks of cricket’s latest global T20 phenomenon: the Big Bash. The sports-mad locals from Melbourne left disappointed as their Stars fell to the flashing blade of Sydney Thunder’s […]
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Professional sports are often considered a world apart, leisure activities that allow us to take our minds off of the real world for a few hours and instead focus on the game in front of us. But sports do not operate in a vacuum; they are affected by global events just like everything else. A […]
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Results of the annual BBC Price of Football survey 2015 have been revealed, and again it is harsh reading for football fans. The average price of the cheapest match-day ticket in the Premier League has rise 6.5% over the past year, passing the £30 barrier for the first time. Across the top five English divisions, […]
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