Sport

Inside the women’s boat: courage on the Tideway

"Both crews get ready please." Two boats sit on the Tideway, a flotilla of motorboats behind them, led by the umpire Matthew Pinsent giving orders over the speakers. Annie Anezakis...
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Clean sweep for Cambridge at Chanel J12 Boat Race weekend

After losing out in both the men's and women's lightweight races on Saturday 12th...
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Youth and Spares complete, time for the Boat Race

The stage is set for the Boat Race on Sunday 13th April. Last week,...
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Men’s Blues Hockey survive back-to-back relegation playoffs

The heights of the BUCS Premiership are that which most university sports clubs around...
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Varsity a knockout for Oxford Boxing

After turning the bastion of free speech into the bastion of free-flowing punches, Oxford University Amateur Boxing Club took over the Oxford Town Hall...

Cambridge rowers barred from Boat Race allege ‘desperate’ Oxford intervention

Three Cambridge rowers have been told that they cannot compete in this year’s Boat Race due to a new condition on eligibility.

Mixed fortunes for Oxford football at Reserves Varsity

We’re into the final minute of the game at the Tristel Global Stadium in Newmarket. The scoreline reads 4-3 in favour of the Centaurs,...

‘Get your brooms out’: Oxford basketball sweep Cambridge

As the automatic doors to the reception creep open, you’re greeted by Nas’ The World is Yours - there’s no need to read the...

Formula One 75: Sport or spectacle?

On Tuesday the 18th of February, the world of Formula One took over the O2 Arena in a special livery reveal hosted by Jack...

Torpids 2025: Bumps, slumps and eleven-spot jumps

Torpids: the bringer of cult-collegiate support, un-ironic unitards, and this year: the first blue skies in what has felt like an eon. Torpids sees...

Oxford dancers reclaim the spotlight with Varsity win

In the dead of night, five figures emerge from the darkness. Blazers over their shoulders and hands on their hips, they start to sashay...

England are learning to win again – can Wales do the same?

Despite contrasting results, England and Wales’ most recent performances show that both sides have started to turn a corner and are ready to compete...

Clear handballs, dodgy calls and ‘learn the rules’

“Fancy reffing my football match today?” It was an innocent enough message. My footballing ability might not be much to shout about, but I know...

The day I saw magic on the cricket pitch

All sport is an endless struggle to scale the heights of human perfection. That sentence reads like a hopelessly pompous platitude, but I think...

Town bests Gown in Union boxing showdown

There are few places on Earth as synonymous with disputes as the Oxford Union. Since its inception just over two centuries ago, the society...

Even contest in uneven waters: Boat Race trial

On December 18th during the vac, the Oxford University Boat Club took to the Tideway for their one dress rehearsal before the Boat Race...

Women’s Blues carve out ski victory at varsity

Recent years have seen Cambridge dominate the Varsity Skiing competition that dates back over a hundred years, as Oxford have seen only seven victories...

Skills, Thrills, and the X20

Having decided that sporting mediocrity will always triumph over academic success, I quickly bin that off and pore over the events of the game...

When you want to play sports but you’re lowkey just a chill guy

...it’s easy, at least for me, to prefer the comfort of sitting down in a warm library over going out into the cold to run about in a field or on a ground.

Growth, but at what cost?

It was a simple but clear signal; women’s football ‘isn’t football’. They were less important than the men, and so had to make do...

The epic highs and lows of uni hockey

No matter how ridiculous it seems that someone would volunteer for death by Google Sheets, ours is not to reason why...

Holding down the Fort(ress)

This week, Cherwell reached out to a titan of St John's, and indeed, Oxford sport: Ian Madden. Madden has been a groundsman at the St John's ground for 17 years, and a groundsman for 40.

Bazball 2: Electric Boogaloo

They don’t go into tricky situations with the same reckless abandon now; there’s a recognition of the need to grind it out sometimes.

Oxford at the Olympics

He remembers the sound of 30,000 people cheering in the last 50m of his race as the best memory in Paris. “That feeling can only happen at the Olympics”.
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