The Boat Race between England’s most prestigious universities returns on Sunday 13 April, to the River Thames for the 170th men’s and 79th women’s races with the tantalising prospect of ...

Carol Wang, of Syosset, never pictured herself competing across Long Island waters until she discovered dragon boat racing in spring 2023. Wang, an accountant, first heard about the sport through ...

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 ...

"I can't see who's in the lead but it's either Oxford or Cambridge" - John Snagge, Boat Race commentator in 1949. Considered one of the world's oldest and most famous amateur sporting events ...

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As with all great sporting events, the beauty of the Boat Race is in its simplicity, but there is so much more to this historic race. Advertisement The prestigious, globally-renowned universities ...