Qatar Round 1 Summary

By Tom Hargreaves The Qatar World Cup is finally here, and already, in the first round of fixtures in the group stage,…

The Downfall of Barcelona    

Barcelona have been knocked out of the 2022-23 UEFA champions league at the group stage, after they failed to beat Bayern Munich…

King of the Streets

By William Hewitt Formula One returned for the third time to Saudi Arabia and the streets of Jeddah for the second race of the season, and with all the practice sessions topped by the two Red Bulls and Fernando Alonso, it was clear that Red Bull was the team to watch. Though a drivetrain issue…

RGChess Tournament Review

By Olly Godkin After 5 weeks of some brilliant, textbook chess playing – and a good deal of somewhat less textbook chessplaying- the ultimate climax of the greatest RGS chess fixture of the year has been played. With 99 players initially taking part, the Senior RGChess finale had been narrowed down to Magnus “Carlsen” Borissow…

En Garde! Success at BSTC

By Rishikesh Mistry The RGS fencers were in action at the British School’s Team Championship.  The school has a good track record of success at the competition, previously winning 5 national competitions. So, Mr Lau and the boys came into the weekend hoping for a good haul of medals. And the teams did not disappoint. On…

The Road to Success

By Josh Verny-White Our very own Dr Hudson competed for GB in the UCI Gran Fondo World Championship on the 18th of September. This daunting race took place in Trento, over the breath-taking hills of Italy, a beautiful background for the contest. Her attitude kept her motivated through all her races and the final push…

England vs Iran Review

By Rishikesh Mistry  England had a brilliant start to their World Cup campaign, smashing Iran 6-2 in the first game of the group stage which has laid out an impressive marker for this ambitious, talented, and young England team, led by star boy Saka who coercted this demolition. After the Iranian keeper bashed his nose…

The Return of the Silver Arrows

The weekend started off with the unexpected conclusion to qualifying where Kevin Magnussen took Haas’s first pole position in F1 after a heavily disrupted Qualifying 3 where each driver was only able to set one lap in the dry due to a red flag caused by a spin from George Russell. On Saturday the final…

Qatar World Cup: The 1509 Favourites

By Tom Hargreaves Unusually, this year’s World Cup is in winter (for the northern hemisphere), because Qatar is too hot for anyone to play sport in the summer. Specifically, 40-45 degrees! Anyone who’s played football in summer knows that it’s harder and slower, but that’s in 25-30 degree heat in Britain! So obviously FIFA decided…

Checo Rules the Streets in Singapore

By William Hewitt Three years since its last F1 appearance, Formula 1 returned to the streets of Marina Bay for the 2022 Singapore Grand Prix. Following heavy rain, the race start was delayed by over an hour, and the race finally got away at 14:00 UK time, 21:00 Local time, the track still extremely wet…

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