UEA Table Tennis and UEA Women’s Hockey both enjoyed success in their respective BUCS cup finals last week. Table Tennis beat a Nottingham Uni side while Women’s Hockey 2s stormed to a 4-1 win against Oxford Brookes. Both finals were hosted at Loughborough University. A cup win is always a testament to consistent performances under…
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Sex and the impact it has on sports performance
Sex and its relationship to sporting performance has long been debated. There are some well-known connections in the sporting world. Boxers are said to have to abstain from sex before a big fight and the Olympic village has a particularly raunchy reputation. The importance of testosterone and sex is particularly common when it comes to…
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Sport in 1992: the events of the sporting world while Concrete was being born
1992 was a significant year for the sporting world, while at the University of East Anglia a new student newspaper was conceived on 22nd January called Concrete. Concrete was not the only thing founded in 1992, there were great changes to football as the Premier League and Champions League were both given a new name…
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Sport Editor Oscar Ress interviews Steve Hawkes, 1993 Sport Editor of Concrete and current Head of Strategic Media at BCW Global
For Concrete’s 30th Birthday, I spoke to Steve Hawkes, a former Sports Editor about Concrete, his career, and sport. While he currently works for BCW Global, Steve boasts a successful journalism career. The highlights include almost six years as Deputy Political Editor of The Sun, Business Editor at The Sun for nearly five years, and…
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Sport Editor Oscar Ress in conversation with UEA Ballet President Ella Matthews
For issue 384 of Concrete, I spoke to UEA Ballet President Ella Matthews. This was to discuss the important campaigns that she is leading to improve inclusivity in ballet and dance, as well as what’s to come for UEA Ballet as we hopefully emerge from a Covid-19 disrupted year. Ella in describing her role as…
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The complicated relationship of Covid-19 vaccinations and the sporting world
Like the rest of the world, sports people are facing the question of whether or not to take the Covid-19 vaccine. Sports and leagues have had differing responses both in uptake and what to do with those who choose to stay unvaccianted. As the global pandemic situation intensifies once again, the pressure for sports people…
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Institutionalised racism crisis at Yorkshire County Cricket Club
It has been 14 months since Azeem Rafiq first made allegations of racism, and the handling of the situation from Yorkshire has been widely criticized as unacceptable. On the 8th November, he settled his employment tribunal under the new Yorkshire chairman Lord Patel. When allegations were first made in September 2020, the YCCC got an…
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T20 Cricket World Cup overview
The T20 cricket World Cup is in full flow, this week marks the end of the Super 12 phase of the tournament and the start of the knockouts. The four semi-final teams have been decided: England, Australia, Pakistan and New Zealand. The first semi-final will see England face New Zealand, a repeat of the 2019…
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How to get involved as UEA Sport does Movember
The UEA sporting community is coming together this month to support the charity Movember, focussed on raising awareness for men’s mental health. For an individual wanting to get involved, you can ‘grow a mo’ over the month or it could be participating in the activities that have been organised by the sports clubs. These clubs…
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