Today we are celebrating one of the most important festivities in the UK and some countries of the Commonwealth. Since the Gunpowder Plot, which took place on 1605, it is a tradition to commemorate the Guy Fawkes failure with fireworks displays.
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Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Sunday, 6 April 2014
Oxford against Cambridge
Oxford and Cambridge have been training all year to face each other this weekend and today, at 5.55pm, one of the oldest sporting games in the world was celebrated: the 160th Boat Race.
The race is 6.8 Km long and it took place over the River Thames, from Putney to Mortlake. The itinerary is better known as the Championship Course and it has been used since 1845 with only three exceptions. In 1846, 1856 and 1863 the race was held in the opposite direction.
This year Oxford University won by 11 lengths, the biggest margin of victory since 1973. With this triumph they achieve their fifth victory in seven years.
Cambridge had the heaviest crew with 2.6kg per man more than Oxford, but they had the youngest team, 24 against 26 years old. Unfortunately, and besides the two teams had strong squads, the two oar of the Cambridge boat hit the seven oar of the Oxford boat. It was a disaster for Cambridge. The oar number two, Luke Juckett, was devastated.
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