A student’s guide to Venice
Josh Warner shares tips for getting the most out of a visit to Venice as a student, including cuisine, culture, and nightlife.
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Do global sporting events help the local community?
In light of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, Josh Warner explores whether global sporting events help the local community.
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Kenny shines as Antipodeans dominate at Birmingham 2022
Australia and New Zealand dominated the cycling schedule at the Commonwealth Games, taking home 21 of the 26 gold medals on offer between them. Aaron Gate, of New Zealand, starred in the week-long programme, leaving with four gold medals across both the track and road – propelling New Zealand to...
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The Tour de France for Dummies
It's the biggest event in cycling, one you won't want to miss, so here's everything you need to know ahead of the Tour!
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Pogačar and Roglič on a charge to The Tour
The Slovenian duo of Primož Roglič and Tadej Pogačar each won key warm up races in the run up to the Tour de France in the last week. Roglič, riding for Team Jumbo Visma, dominated the Critérium du Dauphiné, with only his Danish teammate Jonas Vingegaard within one minute. Not...
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Evenepoel: Quick-Step’s Saviour
Remco Evenepoel took a stunning solo victory in Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday 24 April. The 22-year-old Belgian, riding for Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl, launched an audacious solo attack some 30 kilometres from the finish, and held off an elite chasing pack to take his maiden Monument victory. Cycling is Belgium’s national sport,...
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Five talking points from the Giro d’Italia World Final
After a fantastic Giro d’Italia series, with Jai Hindley emerging victorious after three weeks of racing, here are my five key talking points from the spectacle: Carapaz capitulates… Reigning Olympic champion, victor in 2019, and the bookies favourite. Richard Carapaz entered the Giro as the standout choice, with the clear...
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Josh Warner’s Premier League Team of the Season
As the Premier League season has officially reached it’s conclusion, the writers of The Boar Sport are putting their heads together to create the best XI based upon this campaign. Every few days, a new writer will have their chance to pitch what they believe to be the ultimate side,...
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Dylan van Baarle victorious in “The Queen of the Classics”
Dylan van Baarle, riding for Ineos Grenadiers, took the biggest win of his career on Sunday 17 April, seeking out a gap over the rough cobblestones of North-East France to win solo by more than a minute and a half. The win compounded a remarkable run of form for The...
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Mathieu van der Poel wins the Tour of Flanders in dramatic fashion
Mathieu van der Poel held off two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar and the surging pair of Dylan van Baarle and Valentin Madouas on Sunday 3 April to win the Tour of Flanders, one of the ‘big five’ monument races of the season. The win marked van der Poel’s...
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Tadej triumphant in Italy
Tadej Pogačar won two of the most prestigious races on the Italian calendar in the last week. First claiming Strade Bianche with an audacious solo move from 50km out, before dominating the seven-day Tirreno-Adriatico stage race. The rolling Tuscan hills of Strade Bianche are not, on the surface at least,...
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Women’s cycling is ready to hit the big time: when will its governing body allow it to?
When the UCI, cycling’s governing body, launched the Women’s World Tour at the beginning of the 2016 season, campaigners saw it as a sizeable step towards equality across the peloton. Race days at the top level of the sport were to be increased from a meagre 10 to 35, and...
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Wout van Aert wins road cycling’s ‘opening weekend’
The opening weekend of the road cycling season kicked off on Saturday 26 February, with a dominant win for Wout van Aert of Team Jumbo-Visma in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. Although the road cycling season has officially been underway for the best part of a month now, ‘opening weekend’ marks the...
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