{"id":9554,"date":"2023-05-01T08:34:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T07:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=9554"},"modified":"2023-05-01T08:34:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T07:34:30","slug":"varsity-day-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/varsity-day-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Varsity Day: 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I&#8217;m not really sure if this event still happens at Imperial. But back on 27 February 2008 it was certainly much heralded by the sports centre staff and hence our coverage of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">With <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">nine different sports, 23 matches and 46 teams, Varsity 2008 was packed with fierce competition. <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Harlington Sports Ground hosted hockey, football, lacrosse and rugby matches, also at the sports centre: <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">netball, basketball, badminton, squash and waterpolo matches got underway. The day culminated\u00a0 <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">in the J.P.R. Williams Cup match at Richmond Athletic Association Ground between Imperial\u00a0 <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">College and Imperial Medicals Rugby 1st XV teams attracting over 1,000 spectators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Imperial College Varsity Day: 2008\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tngEyD-DWBA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw May 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 February 2008 it was Varsity Day at Imperial College sports centre and other locations around London. Our camera was there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3921,79,53,295168,82],"tags":[280,89],"class_list":["post-9554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-campus","category-events","category-student-events","category-student-life","tag-sport","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9554"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10791,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions\/10791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}