Sport

Pride cometh before a swim

19 Mar 1997

Some of the finest swimmers ever to grace Imperial College are set to break the national BT swimathon time this week. The team of 5 have to swim under an hour for 5km (which means averaging a gruelling lmin l2secs per 100 metres). Coach Norman Jones is confident the team will rise to the occasion and outperform any previous teams.

The team is also hoping to raise some sponsorship to be added to the BT swimathon good causes, for more information contact Norman Jones (Sports centre) or Andrew Westhead a.westhead@ic.ac.uk. <\c

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19th Mar 1997

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It’s the pits for the lady miners

We played Charring Cross earlier this term. We didn’t like them then. We really don’t like them now. Their act of generosity in donating a player to strengthen our side to an impressive count of nine participants, was soon forgotten as the umpiring became blatantly biased. The umpire

Runners rule the roost

A generally good performance from IC cross-country, enhanced by the hot pants worn by the King’s College women, was marred by the retirement of Gaffer at the start of the second lap. His pink dress was too uncomfortable. Yellow-arse, love-life now intact and Flasher, enjoyed a

A sports editorial

This week’s sports pages see a welcome contribution from the chess and bridge clubs. Perhaps this will encourage more of the "alternative" sports clubs to write material as well. This weekend sees the swordsmen going for national BUSA glory, and the football firsts and fourths furthering their

Sedentary sport spectacular

A tense Saturday afternoon of card play crowned the resurgence of IC Bridge Club. ICBC has come second for the past 2 years in the annual London intercollegiate teams competition, The Chelsea Cup, making victory this year especially sweet. Congratulations to the first team of Dom ‘the Bat’ Goodwin, Joynur

Science

Meet Imperial’s 2026 iGem team: reGelerate

The Imperial iGEM 2026 team, reGelerate, is preparing to compete in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM), the world’s largest annual synthetic biology contest. Bringing together interdisciplinary student teams from across the globe, iGEM challenges participants to develop innovative research projects that address real-world issues in areas such

Books

My favourite book (and goodbye)

If there’s anything I can leave you with, it’ll be a recommendation to read Rules of Civility.

Books

The Remains of the Day

On the 1989 Booker Prize winner, The Remains of the Day.

News

New White City building to host entire Computing department

All teaching and research activities of the Computing Department are expected to move to the new Principal Academic Building within White City Campus. Other departments will partially relocate, including the departments of Mathematics, Chemistry, and the Imperial Business School. The Principal Academic Building will begin construction in mid-2026 and

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It’s the pits for the lady miners

Runners rule the roost

A sports editorial

Sedentary sport spectacular

Meet Imperial’s 2026 iGem team: reGelerate

My favourite book (and goodbye)

The Remains of the Day

New White City building to host entire Computing department