London sporting events are a big part of the flavour of the city. Londoners love sports and sports teams, and they are very interested in a wide variety of sports. Of course, there are the requisite football and cricket matches, but there are also a few other rather more unusual offerings.
Rowing along the River Thames is a quintessential London activity, and so is racing. The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race is a world-wide phenomena watched by millions around the world, and the Head of the River Race is perhaps less well known, but no less loved by Londoners.
Where else but London would you find a race called Doggett's Coat and Badge, anyway? This particular rowing race is perhaps the oldest continuous race in the world, and a tribute to the traditional Thames Watermen.
Horse racing is an activity also near and dear to the heart of Londoners. Royal Ascot is a week long festival of thoroughbreds on display; the racing kind and the wealthy, well-dressed kind.
If rugby is your game, the Six Nations Cup is a competition of fierce national loyalty and friendly rivalry where teams play hard to sort out who is the best, at least for that year. The Varsity Rugby Match (pictured) is a continuation of the grudge matches between the perpetual rivals at Oxford University and Cambridge University.
The London Marathon is a wonderful festival where world-class runners and those just out for fun can join together for the love of running.
The Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships are traditional British sport at its best, and very much worth the trip.
London sporting events should certainly be on any visitor's list of things to do.
Doggett's Coat and Badge is a rowing race that covers over 4 miles of the River Thames, and is named after an Irish Actor.
London sporting events like the Head of the River Race are one of the benefits of living in or visiting a city that is home to such a beautiful river.
The London Marathon is the only marathon to take place in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres; the course actually crosses the Prime Meridian in Greenwich.
The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race is probably one of the best known rowing events in the world; the rivalry between these two rowing powerhouses is unparalleled.
Royal Ascot is one of the high points of the British social calendar, and many Londoners love nothing more than to don their finery and rub elbows with the rich and famous at Ascot Racecourse.
The Six Nations Cup is a hotly contested and extremely popular sporting event, anyone fond of rugby would be lucky to get a chance to see a game in London.
The Varsity Rugby Match is just one of several sporting Varsity Matches held between Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
A Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship ticket is quite a hot commodity; debenture tickets to the matches are actually tradable on the London Stock Exchange.
Photo courtesy: J-Fair
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