SPORT: Fabio Capello and The Last Crusade

There is a great scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where the competing parties searching for the Holy Grail must make their ultimate choice at the adventures end from a vast array of cups, guarded by a crumbling old knight. Indy’s Nazi nemesis sips from a suitably dazzling, golden, bejewelled example and promptly disintegrates, crumbling into dust. An “unwise choice,” the old knight notes. Our hero then picks out a humble looking wooden receptacle and is rewarded by the healing properties of the cup of Christ.

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SPORT: Is now the perfect time to stage the Open in Northern Ireland?

Darren Clarke’s magnificent win at the weekend at the Royal St. George course in England has cemented Northern Ireland’s place as the current golfing capital of the world. Three major winners in thirteen months are from the north. Moreover six winners of the last seventeen majors have come from the island of Ireland. Surely the time is right for the Open championship to return to these shores for the first time in over half a century.

BY SEAN ASHFORD

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SPORT: The next best thing to having wings…

The Queen’s University Belfast Gliding Cub (QUBGC) gives you the opportunity to experience flying at low cost. The membership fee for one year is only £25. It includes instruction and flying in the club’s own K-13 two seat glider. The QUBGC uses aerotow to get the glider airborne. For a £22 launch charge the glider will be towed to 2000 feet by a motored airplane.

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SPORT: Want to improve your pulling power?

“Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream, when the work stops, the dream disappears” – James Dietz

Indeed, the university rowing is built on the premise of dreams. No other sport at Queen’s allows you to show up at try-outs with no previous experience and become a potential part of an Olympic racing team! The Queen’s team training is intensive. During the cold winter months a Queen’s rower is expected to rise six out of seven mornings to perform cardio-vascular activities; alternatively, if they are not to be found pumping away in the PEC, they are pushing their bodies to unknown boundaries on the water. Other students sometimes find it a personal achievement to rise before eleven and make it to class on time.

BY ORLA MACKLE

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