Sport

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

...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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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”.

Eights Week is part of the 200-year old Oxford tradition of ‘bumps’ racing.

With over half of this year's drivers out of contract at the end of 2024, when the music stops who will be left without a seat?

On May 6th 2024 Oxford marked the 70th anniversary of Roger Bannister’s historic feat

The magic of the FA cup is a sentiment that all fans of teams below the Premier League hope to experience

Whether the end of sport comes via retirement or injury, there is always a period of mourning but, importantly, there is always a period of re-finding.

The second half, which Catz had so completely dominated, saw them saunter to victory assuredly. 

From 1896 to 2020, a considerable 170 Olympic medals have been won by Oxford alumni in a whole range of sports. This certainly is impressive, but is it possible to uphold this standard of achievement in sport whilst still studying at one of the most academically challenging universities?