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Favourites Oxford University rowed to Thames victory in the 155th Boat Race, demonstrating immense power and domination over the Cambridge University eight in the closing stages.
With a finishing time of 17 minutes exactly, the dark blues didn’t break any records, but beat a broken Cambridge by three and a half lengths.
Cambridge made a poor start, [...]

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Great Britain gained two silver and two bronze medals but could not secure a win on day one at track cycling’s World Championships in Pruszkow, Poland.
Wendy Houvenaghel was beaten by New Zealander Alison Shanks in the individual pursuit final and GB’s Olympic champion team sprint trio were pipped to the finishing line by 0.3 seconds [...]

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Rowing’s most high-profile contest is back again this Sunday, the 29th March, as the crews of Oxford and Cambridge Universities take to the Thames in London for the 155th time.
Last year’s race was won by Oxford University under tricky conditions. The choppy water and adverse weather meant that the race times were never going to [...]

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Lance Armstrong has crashed out of the Spanish Vuelta Castilla y Leon cycle race with a suspected collar bone fracture after being caught up an incident involving several riders with just 20km of the race to complete.
The American appeared in pain as he was taken by ambulance to nearby Valladolid and the University Clinic.
Spanish rider [...]

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After investigating Briton Dwain Chambers’ autobiography, the International Association of Athletics Federations have decided not to punish the sprinter for his controversial comments.
Chambers’ book, entitled ‘Race against Me’, detailed the doping programme that earned him his two-year ban after he tested positive for the banned substance THG in 2003.
Extracts from his book have also been [...]

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