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The build-up to today’s Boat Race has been beset by controversy. Oxford insisted that Tom Ford, a gold-medal winner from last year’s Paris Olympics, was ineligible to row for Cambridge because ...

THE Boat Race returns for the 170th time this weekend - and fans will be preparing to take their place on the banks of the River Thames. The famous old race between Oxford and Cambridge ...

The 1877 Boat Race was declared a dead heat because, legend has it, finishing judge "Honest" John Phelps was not only blind in one eye but blind drunk too. In 2025 we have multiple Olympic ...

coli in the River Thames. The Boat Race, which was first staged in 1829, is a rowing event which takes place every year between students from two of the UK’s elite universities over a 4.25-mile ...

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Cambridge cox Jack Nicholas launched an X-rated verbal tirade not befitting the prestigious Boat Race just moments after the starting gun went off. Nicholas was coxing for Cambridge in the Women's ...

Many are wearing beige trousers and some are in brown blazers. Yep, OK. Got it. Welcome to the Boat Race. For the uninitiated, this is a true British — or more specifically, English — sporting ...

It’s that time of year again, when we flock to the banks of the Thames to watch Oxford and Cambridge in the Boat Race. It’s that time of year again, when we flock to the banks of the Thames to ...

This year sees the 170th Men’s Boat Race and the 79th Women’s Boat Race take place in London The banks of the River Thames will be packed this weekend as thousands of spectators come out to wa ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. The famous Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge will make its return next weekend. First raced by crews from the two universities in ...