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Victoria Pendleton: My Day as a Jousting Knight
Double Olympic gold medalist Victoria Pendleton spends a day jousting like a medieval knight at English Heritage's Kenilworth Castle.
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Make jousting an Olympic sport
As Team GB heads to Rio, English Heritage calls for jousting to be recognised as an Olympic sport
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The Real Knight Rider: Meeting a 21st century Jousting Knight
How do you become a jousting knight in the 21st century? Isobel Uden meets Arne Koets, the quintessential ‘knight in shining armour.’
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Legendary Joust at Bolsover Castle
Experience the exhilarating spectacle of speed and skill as four legendary knights compete for honour and glory in the grand medieval joust at Bolsover Castle.
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Legendary Joust at Eltham Palace and Gardens
Experience an exhilarating spectacle as four legendary knights compete for glory in the grand medieval joust at Eltham Palace and Gardens.
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Jousting joins football, tennis and cricket in V.A.R revolution
English Heritage has collaborated with the leading innovator in sports technology, Hawk Eye, to bring jousting adjudication in-line with 21st century standards.
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Olympian Victoria Pendleton learns to joust at Kenilworth Castle
Double Olympic gold medallist Victoria Pendleton has become English Heritage's newest jouster, undergoing tuition at Kenilworth Castle.
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Jousting Joins the Football, Tennis and Cricket VAR Revolution
Jousting, England’s first national sport, is being brought bang up-to-date as English Heritage trials VAR (Video Assisted Referee) sports technology to kick off its series of jousts across England this August, the charity announced today (Wednesday 31 July).
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See some of the key things to look out for at a 15th-century joust this summer, from the knights’ elaborate armour to the fool, who provides entertainment throughout the tournament.