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50 years of women’s cross-country Varsity

The 50th anniversary of women’s cross-country in the Oxford-Cambridge Varsity Competition is set to be celebrated on Saturday 6th December. The event will be held at Roehampton Vale, the...

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The inescapable exhaustion of the tennis season

The fatigue is inescapable as the tennis season draws slowly towards a close. Players...

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Inside the little-known world of Oxford’s real tennis club

Real tennis? What, as opposed to fake tennis? No, real as in Real Madrid,...

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Ethics versus economics: The WTA Finals in Riyadh

I am a tennis aficionado. I follow tennis year-round, and each tournament has a...

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Top Ten Sporting Moments of 2019

1st June: Liverpool become Champions of Europe Unlike many of the events on this list, if you ask anyone where they were on 1st June,...

“Bikram”- Review: The fad variant assumes corpse pose

As a die-hard yogi since the age of eleven, I was quick to judge the idea of the new Netflix documentary Bikram as being unfair. I...

Queering Sport

Tena Thau on her failed attempt at netball, and why we should rethink how we play sports.

Boat Race Ready?

The past week saw some highly important races in the world of university rowing – Trial Eights. Each of the four clubs: OUBC (male...

Cambridge Dominate in Convincing 15-0 Men’s Varsity Win

A crowd of over 22,000 were at Twickenham on Thursday afternoon to watch a resounding Cambridge victory in the 138th Men’s Varsity Match. In miserable...

To ski or not to ski: is the Varsity Trip worth it?

On the final Friday of Michaelmas term every year, Broad Street becomes quite a sight to behold – picture hundreds of exhausted, rather dishevelled...

Running Santas come to town

Santa was, evidently, training for his December circuit around the world last Sunday, Oxmas Eve, with a 5k in University Park. Over 200 Fathers...

Road to Euro 2020

In England’s eight Euro 2020 qualifiers, 10 different players have scored. Both Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling have a goalsto-games ratio better than 1,...