They never do one at the Boat Race. They couldn’t, of course, because there are no qualifying races or semi-finals. It’s Oxford vs Cambridge in the final, every year, since 1829. And not ...

Two crews of eight rowing four miles down the Thames. The premise of the Boat Race, contested annually – and fiercely – by eternal rivals Oxford and Cambridge, is very simple. But the race has ...

There is a trailer for a documentary about this year’s Boat Race that ends with Oxford women’s president declaring: “I will sell my soul to the devil to win this race.” If the makers of ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE and Oxford resume their rivalry in the university Boat Race TODAY! Due to an eligibility dispute involving gold winner Tom Ford, relations between the two have only become worse in the ...

THE 170th edition of The Boat Race will take place along the River Thames TODAY. And while its long history has seen all sorts of weird and wonderful events - protesters, sinking boats ...

The Cambridge victory, 13th since the War, made a record: it was the first time in the 104-year history of an event properly and completely described as “The Boat Race” that either crew had ...

After plenty of talk, the Cambridge and Oxford teams take to the water this weekend for The Boat Race 2025. Controversy surrounding the eligibility of rowers and the state of the water has ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like any British institution, the Boat Race is steeped in peculiarity. Established between Oxford and ...

The central London stroke rate was on the rise this week as the 2025 Boat Race season got underway with the Presidents’ Challenge at Somerset House. The central London stroke rate was on the ...