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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 […]
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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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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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England qualified top of their group unbeaten on thirty points after their victory over Lithuania on Monday, yet that does not seem enough. Jamie Carragher has claimed it is the easiest it has ever been to win an England cap, after Dele Ali made his debut in the 88th minute against Estonia. Meanwhile, complaints are […]
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One would be forgiven for discarding England’s Ashes triumph from recent memory, considering the tales of malaise within punditry and fan circles. Memories of Alastair Cook hoisting the urn have been banished in favour of calls for order reshuffles, coaching changes and the obligatory criticism of Ian Bell. This is reflective of a number of […]
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The FA have taken the complete wrong lesson from the latest Mourinho debacle. The Chelsea boss has received heavy criticism, with varying regularity, for the way in which he addresses refereeing performances post-match. Whilst he is almost certainly the most vocal and explicit when talking about refereeing decisions, he is hardly alone, and perhaps we, […]
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I am not going to lie. Jurgen Klopp’s first press conference was an incredible event to follow. Not necessarily in terms of what he had to say, but definitely in the way it was covered. Klopp’s answers were rational, well thought out and quite predictable. The intrigue and excitement around a new manager is obvious […]
Continue Reading“Real tennis is the sport of kings.” This sentiment still resonates today, even if the main reason for doing so is that most of the rules appear to have been made up for the sole purpose of ensuring King Henry VIII never lost a match — “No your majesty, you won that point as well […]
Continue ReadingTweet @restyrestall to get involved in OxStu Sport’s SPOTY2012 live blog! 23.00 SPOTY Post-script. Robbo has just got in touch to remind me: “you do owe me a pint for the lack of paul scholes nomination”. That’s right, I inaccurately predicted that the veteran Man Utd midfielder would be up for a nomination following his heroic return to football […]
Continue ReadingKorean squatters, dirty judges and racism -and this is not the plot to some new ITV drama called EDL Housing Court. It is, instead, the Games of the XXX Olympiad. What better way to spend our brief respite from academia -recovering from monstrous fact-cramming sessions and post-exam inebriation – than to stay glued to our screens with […]
Continue ReadingThe Olympics. With the opening ceremony less than 36 hours away, all eyes are turned to the London stadium and the international athletes, who over the next few weeks will push themselves to breaking point in the hope of taking home the ultimate prize – a gold medal. Whilst many of us were unlucky enough […]
Continue ReadingThe 2012 Olympics are not simply a sporting event, but a festival of repression and corporate propaganda. Let’s try and undo the myth that sport is apolitical, and least of all, the Olympics. From the 1936 Berlin Olympics to the sporting boycott of apartheid South Africa to the Olympic massacre in Mexico to the human […]
Continue ReadingWomen reach parity with men from 2015 as the Women’s race is given equal place
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