Articles about 'Sport'

Millions of people will tune into the Champions’ League Final this weekend; billions watch the football World Cup. But despite its popularity, professional historians have tended to overlook the beautiful game. A Cambridge Public History Seminar sought to find out why.

With 500 days to go to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the University of Cambridge is helping everyone to understand more about the maths and science of sport.

As the electronic clock purrs away the milliseconds to the opening of the 2012 London Olympic Games, a new book by a Cambridge University researcher looks at the controversies surrounding the training and performance of athletes over the last 130 years and reveals huge changes in attitudes towards what is fair play and what is cheating, what is natural and what is not.

The 2011 Xchanging Boat Race later this month will pit an Oxford boat composed largely of British students with an impressive rowing pedigree against a slightly older, multi-national Cambridge eight that includes three returning Blues from last year’s epic encounter.

The science which helps the British Cycling Team to world-beating performances is being used to promote the benefits of academic achievement to children in care.

This year’s official Xchanging Boat Race Dinner will be held at the prestigious Merchant Taylor’s Hall in the City of London on Thursday 17 March – just nine days before the 157th Race involving crews from Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Striving for, and achieving, high performance in teams has become a major business imperative.

Cambridge graduate, Andrew Wellum-Kent, won the Queen's Medal at the most recent Sovereign's Parade at Sandhurst.

Fitzwilliam College postgraduate student Harry Leitch has been named as one of the six players to represent Team Scotland at squash at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in October.

A conference this week in Cambridge will help companies tap into the £1.7 billion market created by the 2012 London Olympics and the £160 billion global sports industry.