April 7 (Reuters) - Cambridge beat Oxford by two seconds to win the 165th men's Varsity boat race on the River Thames on Sunday with double Olympic champion James Cracknell rowing himself into the ...

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, ...

Concern is growing over levels of sewage pollution in London’s River Thames after E. coli bacteria was discovered ahead of this weekend’s historic Oxford v. Cambridge boat race. Rowers taking part in ...

Cambridge women's crew won the university boat race in record time for their fifth straight triumph while Oxford's men ended their five-year wait for victory on Sunday as the event returned to the ...

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