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, ...

"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, the Boat ...

Concerns have been raised before the men’s and women’s Boat Races between Oxford University and Cambridge University on Sunday after testing found high levels of the bacteria E. coli in the River ...

Controversy has broken out ahead of this year’s Boat Race between Oxford University and Cambridge University over the eligibility of certain students which has been labelled “a desperate ploy … to ...

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 ...