The build-up to today’s Boat Race has been beset by controversy. Oxford insisted that Tom Ford, a gold-medal winner from last year’s Paris Olympics, was ineligible to row for Cambridge because he ...
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, ...