The Head of the River Race: St. Patrick’s Day On The Thames
400 boats battle from Mortlake to Putney
Rowing
Olympic Sport Lowdown: Rowing & Paralympic Rowing
Row, row, row your boat… and don’t catch a crab*
Messing About on the Thames: The Great River Race
The River Thames is likely to be a bit busy this Saturday….
Olympic Test Event: World Rowing Junior Championships @ Eton Dorney
Sampling a test event for the 2012 Games.
Fancy A Pint: Ten Top Pubs For Boat Race Watching
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 …
Our Four To Follow At London’s Paralympic Games
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 …
Getting Tudor On The Thames
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 …
Varsity And England Football At Bargain Prices
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 …
Book Review: London – The Thames
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 …
And Heroes Come
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 …
London Olympic Timetable – Second Friday
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 …
