Rowing

Sampling a test event for the 2012 Games.

This Saturday at 4.30pm the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race shoots off down the river. There will be big screens in Bishops Park, Fulham and Furnival Gardens, Hammersmith and there are plenty of spots along the route where you can catch a glimpse of the …

Dervis Konuralp, Tom Aggar, Andy Barrow & Sophie Christiansen Time flies by when you have the world’s two greatest sporting events – the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games – heading your way. It seems only yesterday that London knocked out Paris to win the …

Ever been out near the Thames of a summer’s evening, seen a flotilla of Tudor looking rowing boats rush past, covered in heraldry and flying ornate flags and banners, and thought you must have just witnessed some sort of timeslip? In fact, what you’ve just …

Photo via Nigel Wilson’s Flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cocca/2254496847/ Fry and Laurie would be working themselves up into a right old state about the opportunities available to the capital’s football watchers over the next few days. It’s not every day that you can pitch up at the …

The cross-town transect is often the first approach of anyone wishing to grasp a city in its entirety. There’s something intuitive about it: abandon the abstractions of Tube schematics and reshuffled A-Z squares, clear your head, and measure the distances against yourself, the way we …

Working at my first ever Paralympic Games in Beijing, this Londonista heard and understood the maxim: ‘Heroes are born at the Olympics; Heroes come to the Paralympics.’ The Paralympics are the equivalent of the Olympics for athletes with physical, mental, and sensorial disabilities (so you’ll …

Gold! Gold, I tell ‘ee. Gold, in them thar doldrums, damn yer eyes! Ahh, hahahahahaha! We ‘opes you’ll forgive us old sea dogs splicin’ the mainbrace in honour of our crew what’s brought treasure back to these shores. Aye, aye! It’s first mate Andrew Simpson …

And it came to pass that Team GB didst look upon their works and, behold, they were good. And on the twelfth day they rested. Well, comparatively speaking anyway. Today there are only eleven gold medals available across the whole games, the fewest on any …

Even though we’re ten days into the Games of the 29th Olympiad there are still some competitors yet to get their campaigns underway. Two such athletes are pre-Beijing Londonist interviewees Jessica Walker (above left) and Anna Hemmings who, at 11am precisely (all times BST) will …