| Oxford Trial Eights Report |
2007-12-12 |
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"Shirts" beat "Skins" at the 2007 Oxford Trial Eights, in a match which was close for the first six minutes before one Dark Blue crew raced ahead of the other to claim victory. For the first time i...
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| Cambridge Trials Report |
2007-12-11 |
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True love may conquer all, but not at this year's Cambridge Trial Eights, where 'One Night Stand', a crew strengthened by three returning Blues, took a three length verdict ahead of their Light Blu...
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| Trial Eights Crews |
2007-12-10 |
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Head Coaches Sean Bowden and Duncan Holland have selected their crews to compete in the Trial Eights this week on Tuesday 11 December (CUBC) and Wednesday 12 December (OUBC).
The line-ups are ...
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| National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships - It's going to be big!! |
2007-11-29 |
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London Youth Rowing (“LYR”), The Boat Race Company Ltd and Concept 2 Ltd are delighted to announce the official launch of the second National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships – NJIRC2008. Hosted...
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| Trial Eights Dates set for December |
2007-11-26 |
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Both Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Clubs will be braving the elements of the Thames in mid-December to compete in the annual Trial Eights, one of the major rowing events of the season.
Ea...
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| Xchanging continue to sponsor The Boat Race |
2007-09-11 |
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The Boat Race Company, organisers of the annual Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race have appointed Xchanging, the international pure play business process outsourcing company as the continued...
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| Blues in action at world champs |
2007-09-02 |
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Blues of both shades have been competing this week in the World Rowing Championships in Munich with the men’s eights final – rowing’s biggest prize – a particularly interesting contest which reflec...
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| Cambridge and Oxford meet again |
2007-08-24 |
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Both Oxford and Cambridge Universities will travel to Moscow next week to compete in the 'Race of Champions', an invitational regatta to be held on the 1st September on the Moskva River, meeting ea...
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| Cleaner Thames Challenge |
2007-08-21 |
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A charity is marking World Rivers Day on Sunday 30 September with a four day clean up of one of the River Thames’ dirtiest beaches, and is urging Londoner’s to help.
Organised by environmental c...
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| Engelmann penalised for early departure |
2007-07-18 |
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The Boat Race Company, organisers of the annual Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race, has announced that Cambridge University Boat Club has not awarded Thorsten Engelmann, a member of the 2007...
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| ITV's coverage scoops RTS Awards |
2007-06-02 |
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ITV’s coverage of the 2006 Boat Race has scooped two Royal Television Society Awards. The 2006 Race Coverage took the “Best Live Outside Broadcast” Award whilst Ned Boulting and Phil Heslop’s “Supe...
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| Blues in action at GB and German trials |
2007-04-14 |
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13 current or former representatives of Oxford and Cambridge are taking part at The Great Britain Rowing Trials in Hazewinkel, Belgium starting tomorrow and finishing on Monday, whilst Thorsten Eng...
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| Queen's Colour Squadron take victory |
2007-04-11 |
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The Queen's Colour Squadron (No 63 Squadron RAF Regiment) won the BAS Boat Race in Iraq on April 1st.
This was a Concept II relay over the distance of the University Boat Race and included teams...
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| Boat Race documentary to be screened in Germany |
2007-04-10 |
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Oxford and Cambridge oarsmen have become accustomed over the past three months to the presence of a documentary crew from Germany who have tracked their "highs" and "lows" in the run-up to The Boat...
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| 4.4 million tune in to ITV coverage |
2007-04-08 |
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A peak of 4.4 million viewers in the UK watched ITV Sport’s coverage of The 153rd Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging and won by Cambridge University by one and a quarter lengths in a time of 17 minu...
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| Brits stick at it for Cambridge victory |
2007-04-07 |
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British oarsmen Peter Champion and Kieran West were agreed – today’s Boat Race victory for Cambridge was a triumph for 'sticking at it' when under pressure.
“Oxford were really tough and took it...
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| Cambridge win first race for three years |
2007-04-07 |
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Cambridge today justified their pre-race tag as favourites by winning the 153rd Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging.
Under bright blue skies and with a slight tailwind, it was the Light Blues who ...
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| Cambridge win the 153rd Boat Race |
2007-04-07 |
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Cambridge today won the 153rd Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging - their first Boat Race win since 2004.
Cambridge are a length ahead as they pass under Barnes Bridge and take the middle water - ...
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| Goldie make it three in a row |
2007-04-07 |
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Goldie this afternoon made it a hat-trick of successive Reserve Race wins.
The Cambridge reserve boat, coxed for the third successive year by American Russell Glenn, beat the Oxford reserves, Is...
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| Oxford President wins Boat Race toss and chooses Surrey |
2007-04-07 |
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Oxford President Robin Esjmond-Frey today (Saturday) won the toss for the 153rd Boat Race - sponsored by Xchanging - and chose to row from Surrey Station.
Esjmond-Frey will hope winning the toss...
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| Goldie win Reserve Race toss and will race from Surrey |
2007-04-07 |
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Goldie, the Cambridge reserve crew, won the toss for this afternoon's (Saturday) Reserve Race and elected to row from Surrey Station.
Goldie chose Surrey for last year's Reserve Race - a race th...
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| Crowds were out in force early to watch the Boat Race |
2007-04-07 |
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Crowds were out in force early, lining the banks of the River Thames ahead of this afternoon’s (Saturday) 153rd Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging.
And they have come from many corners of the glo...
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| Umpire predicts close, fast race |
2007-04-07 |
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Umpire Peter Bridge was predicting a close, fast race at this afternoon’s press briefing before he gets the 153rd Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging, underway at 4.30pm this afternoon.
“There’s ...
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| What the papers say about the 153rd Boat Race |
2007-04-07 |
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Journalists writing in this morning’s national papers give Cambridge the edge over Oxford for this afternoon’s (Saturday) 153rd Boat Race, which is sponsored by Xchanging.
James Cracknell, writi...
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| Crews confirmed for 153rd Boat Race |
2007-04-07 |
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Oxford and Cambridge’s coaches have confirmed their crews are both fit and well for today’s (Saturday) 153rd Boat Race, which is sponsored by Xchanging.
It means there will be no late changes to...
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| Fine conditions will make for a fair race |
2007-04-07 |
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The 153rd Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging, looks set to be held in warm dry conditions, on flat, even water – the sort of “ideal” conditions that the Cambridge crew’s Olympic champion Kieran West...
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| Cambridge are favourites for 79th victory |
2007-04-07 |
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The day of the 153 Boat Race – sponsored by Xchanging – has arrived – and the bookies have Cambridge down as firm favourites to secure their 79th victory.
Ladbrokes, Paddy Power and William Hill...
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| Web simulcast |
2007-04-06 |
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If you can't get near a Television set on Race Day, don't forget that you can watch the race on itv.com
For the first time ITV will be broadcasting The Boat Race live on their website - www.itv....
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| Final public training outings |
2007-04-06 |
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Both the Oxford and Cambridge Blue Boats today put the finishing touches to their preparations for tomorrow’s Boat Race.
Both boats paddled over a reasonably short distance, so as not to tire th...
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| Veterans Boat Race |
2007-04-06 |
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The Veterans Race is this afternoon (Friday 6 April) starting at 2.45pm. Here are the crew lists with some detail about the runners and riders:
Cambridge – Champions
Bow Neil West
2 ...
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| Details of ITV coverage |
2007-04-06 |
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ITV will broadcast live coverage of the 153rd Boat race between Oxford and Cambridge universities from 3.30pm to 5.15pm on ITV1 on Race Day (Saturday 7 April).
Mark Durden-Smith and James Crack...
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| Mobile phone competition winner announced |
2007-04-06 |
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Kevin Walsh from Elstow has won this year's Boat Race mobile phone competition.
He's one the chance of a lifetime to follow the 2007 Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging, on an official Boat Race l...
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| Outings seek to perfect technique |
2007-04-04 |
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Cambridge chose to do a technical work during their first outing of two today and the day after he made Boat Race history for being the heaviest man ever, Cambridge’s stroke man Thorsten Engelmann ...
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| Scene now set |
2007-04-03 |
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The scene is now set for The 153rd Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging and taking place on Saturday (7 April) at 4.30pm. Cambridge lead the series overall by 78-73 with one dead-heat yet Oxford have ...
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| Engelmann becomes heaviest rower in Boat Race history |
2007-04-03 |
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Cambridge stroke Thorsten Engelmann made a piece of history today (Tuesday) when he weighed in as the heaviest oarsman the Boat Race has ever seen.
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The 25-year-old German rower tipped th...
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| Plotkowiak to become first Pole in Boat Race |
2007-04-03 |
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Oxford’s Michal Plotkowiak will make history on Saturday when he becomes the first oarsman from Poland to compete in the Boat Race.
The 25-year-old, who is studying for DPhil in bio-medical engi...
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| Dowbiggin excited to cox Light Blue crew |
2007-04-03 |
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Cambridge’s Rebecca Dowbiggin is looking forward to being the first woman in five years to cox a Blue Boat at the Boat Race, which is sponsored by Xchanging.
The 23-year-old was initially due to...
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| 800 youngsters compete in Boat Race-backed event |
2007-04-01 |
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800 young people took part in the inaugural National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships (NJIRC) this week at the Assembly Hall of Hammersmith Town Hall.
The event was the brainchild of London Yo...
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| Cambridge confidence-booster |
2007-04-01 |
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Cambridge University’s Boat Race squad gave themselves a confidence booster by finishing first in the annual Head of the River Race ahead of leading UK clubs Leander and Molesey on the Tideway yest...
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| Option to see classic Boat Races |
2007-03-30 |
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ESPN Classic are to screen some of the great Boat Races of all-time. They have obtained archive footage of these Races and updated them with recent interviews filmed with some of the former partici...
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| Radio 4 Boat Race "special" |
2007-03-30 |
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BBC Radio 4 is set to transmit a documentary on Saturday 7 April at 10.30am about the 1987 Boat Race.
Olympic gold medal-winning rower James Cracknell re-examines one of British sporting history...
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| Cambridge change cox |
2007-03-28 |
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Rebecca Dowbiggin, a post-graduate student of Economics in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms studying at Emmanuel College, has been promoted to cox Cambridge’s Blue Boat with under two weeks to go to the 20...
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| More than 700 sign up for inaugural junior event |
2007-03-25 |
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Entries for the inaugural National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships (NJIRC) which take place next Wednesday (March 28) at Hammersmith Town Hall starting at 12 noon, have topped 700 and last-minut...
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| Leander provide a "valuable" lesson |
2007-03-24 |
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Leander Club today provided Oxford, in the words of the University Boat Club’s Director of Rowing, Stephen Royle, a “valuable lesson” by taking a three and a half length victory over the Dark Blue...
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| Molesey get better of Tideway run-out |
2007-03-23 |
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Molesey BC won today’s Tideway encounter with the Light Blues of Cambridge in a fixture designed to give Molesey a competitive outing before the Eights Head and Cambridge another run-out on the Tha...
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| Cambridge take on an eight with pedigree |
2007-03-23 |
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The Molesey eight announced to race against Cambridge today in the Light Blues’ last head-to-head fixture before The Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging and taking place on April 7th, is bristling wi...
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| Boat Race event with a difference in Iraq |
2007-03-20 |
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The Boat Race continues to provide enduring appeal to a worldwide TV audience but, this year, it has also provided the catalyst for an event with a difference – due to take place in early April in ...
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| 2008 Race date announced |
2007-03-13 |
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Boat Race organisers have today announced that the 2008 Boat Race will take place on Saturday March 29th at 17.15.
This will be the 154th in the series which dates back to 1829.
Crews for the...
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| 2007 Race Crews Announced |
2007-03-12 |
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Oxford and Cambridge today unveiled the line-ups they intend to contest this year’s Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging, and due to take place on April 7th, at 4.30pm.
The announcement came a...
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| Oxford race twice against the Americans, winning the second comfortably |
2007-03-10 |
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Oxford took on an American eight in two
races on the Thames this afternoon ceding
the first but winning emphatically in the second.
Both races, rowed in quick succession, were
part of Oxford'...
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| ITV name Boat Race presenter |
2007-03-09 |
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ITV today announced that Mark Durden-Smith will join the network to present live coverage of The 2007 Boat Race.
Durden-Smith will lead ITV Sport’s award-winning team for live coverage of the 15...
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| Oxford warm up against an American eight |
2007-03-08 |
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Oxford will take on an American eight, including former world champion and 2006 Oxford Blue Paul Daniels, on the Thames this weekend as part of their warm-up for this year's Boat Race, sponsored by...
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| Boat Race secures live US television deal |
2007-03-07 |
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The 2007 Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging, will be seen live in America for the first time following a deal, brokered by Korer Media, between the Boat Race Company Limited and ESPNU.
ESPNU, the...
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| The Boat Race goes mobile |
2007-03-06 |
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Organisers of The Boat Race have today announced the creation of a new mobile phone internet service providing background information, live reports and follow-ups to the 2007 Race, sponsored by Xch...
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| Cambridge bested by Germany - but only just |
2007-03-03 |
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Cambridge came off second-best today to a German crew featuring six reigning world champions but only just in an exciting duel on the Thames as a prelude to this year’s Boat Race, sponsored by Xcha...
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| Boat Race crews enjoy unusual company |
2007-03-02 |
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Cambridge crews training on the Thames enjoyed some unusual company this morning when a dolphin came to join them between Chiswick and Barnes.
"I spotted the dolphin and shouted to the lads and ...
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| Cambridge take on German Eight |
2007-03-02 |
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As part of their preparations for the 2007 Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging, Cambridge will tomorrow (Saturday 3 March) take on a German eight - featuring six of the reigning world champions - on...
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| Cambride Preparation Surprise |
2007-02-28 |
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CAMBRIDGE PRODUCE PREPARATION SURPRISE
Duncan Holland, coach to the Cambridge University Boat Race squad, has sprung a final preparation surprise for this year’s Boat Race, sponsored by Xchangin...
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| New National Junior Indoor Championships launched |
2007-02-08 |
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London Youth Rowing (“LYR”) and The Boat Race Company Ltd announce the creation of the National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships (“NJIRC”), hosted by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham....
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| Oxford Blues feature at national award ceremony |
2007-02-04 |
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The achievements of Oxford University Boat Club members were celebrated last night at a gala dinner at Lords cricket ground, London.
Recent Oxford Blues, Andy Hodge and Peter Reed made three vis...
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| Boat Race landmark to get a facelift |
2007-01-10 |
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The Bandstand in Dukes Meadow, one of the classic Boat Race landmarks, is to be renovated through a grant of £10,000 provided to the Dukes Meadow Trust.
The Bandstand, according to local paper t...
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