The IC ski team gained another good resuly last Sunday at the King’s Ski Club parallel slalom race.
Dan, Caitlin, Xavier, Nick and Paul fought off fierce competition in the first two rounds, winning evey race to earn a place in the final (ahead of Cambridge!) Despite a valiant attempt, the team were beaten into second place. This was an excellent performance considering that the winning team consisted mainly of English National team members - well done
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At last, a victory for the firsts! Last week in BUSA "we wuz robbed" 5-4 on penalties due to a poor effort by "Pretty boy" Alex. We won today despite the continuing absence of "Goal Machine" Ike, and having to field mental patients Tony
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