ROWING: Impressive Dark Blues can atone for last year
So the question is – can the ‘heavies’ of Oxford make their weight advantage count in the BNY Mellon Boat Race from Putney to Mortlake on Sunday (4.30pm)?
So the question is – can the ‘heavies’ of Oxford make their weight advantage count in the BNY Mellon Boat Race from Putney to Mortlake on Sunday (4.30pm)?
Centre of interest in the women’s Boat Race at Henley on Sunday is a certain rower called Redgrave.
When the crews were announced for the Boat Race, to be held this Saturday (5pm), the odds seemed heavily against Oxford.
The most interesting aspect of the announcement of the Boat Race crews on Monday was that Oxford University named just one overseas oarsman for their contest against Cambridge on Saturday March 26 (5pm).
Athol Hundermark, starting his third year as coach of the Abingdon School first eight, has high hopes for 2011.
While the host club had to give second best to Oxford Brookes in the Wallingford Head on Sunday, they did at least come out on top in the Blue Riband event.
It was a golden week for Oxfordshire competitors at the World Chsampionships in New Zealand, where four of them captured gold medals.
Oxford president Sjoerd Hamburger Pictured) is the only returning Blue named in the current squad of 26 Boat Race hopefuls in training for the 2010 Boat Race, writes Mike Rosewell.
Oxfordshire's Frances Houghton has decided to return to the rigours of international rowing.
Oxford are older, heavier and taller than Cambridge, but their coach Sean Bowden, involved in his 12th University Boat Race, is taking nothing for granted on Sunday (3.40pm).
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