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 he ...
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 medalists, ...
Rowing is a famously popular pastime in both Oxford and Cambridge, so why do the rowers descend on London’s River Thames every spring? Here’s everything you need to know about the Boat Race ahead of ...