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 BBC has lost the television rights to the Boat Race after the corporation’s director of sport appeared to show “very little enthusiasm” during negotiations. Channel 4 will be confirmed as the ...

You get two long, thin, canoe-type structures, stick nine people in them and then row along the River Thames in London for 15 minutes or so. Sounds pretty basic, yes? Well, it is, but then so is ...

Putney Bridge station in south-west London is overwhelmingly busy at 10am. What’s going on? Are Fulham playing at home in the Premier League just up the road? Is there a half-price sale on matcha ...

"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 ...

Channel 4 has secured the broadcast rights to The Boat Race in a multi-year agreement. At the Presidents’ Challenge event held at Somerset House, at which the losing crew from the previous year’s Boat ...