Boat race festival in Samoa. DOING a boat race with members of the island race is a great way to get involved in traditional community life, writes Kari Gislason.

We stand together on one side of a spectator boat as it follows the Teuila Festival Fautasi Race. On the shoreline, a crowd clambers down a retaining wall. It seems his is a common sentiment. Each ...

The 2025 Boat Race women’s event will be the first of the day, starting at 1.21pm UK time on Sunday 13 April, and the men’s event will start an hour later at 2.21pm.

Fishermen Taula Fagatuai, left, and Faalogo Afereti Taliulu talk on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, about the New Zealand navy ship HMNZS Manawanui that sank not far from them in the village of Siumu, Samoa.

With the Boat Race marking 10 years of full parity between the men’s and women’s races it’s evident that even this most traditional of institutions is modernising.

Program forTeuila Festival 2017.It has been confirmed that one of the major highlights of the Festival each year, long boat racing is not included in program SBS Language Samoa's 2017 Teuila ...

Boat Race 2025 LIVE: Cambridge crush Oxford to extend dominance after controversial build-up. Cambridge extended their dominance with a massive victory over Oxford in the men’s race to complete ...

Not even E. coli can stop the Boat Race, though. Only wars and Covid-19 have prevented it from taking place every year since 1856, with the women’s race an annual fixture since 1964. Come rain ...

The 2025 Women's Boat Race was halted after a calamitous start saw Oxford and Cambridge collide, with Light Blues cox Jack Nicholas swearing at his rivals in the early drama ...

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The Boat Race Company, which organises the event, estimates that more than 200,000 people gather on the bank of the river to watch the men’s and women’s races, with millions watching on TV.