Who's says the boat race is boring?

[ripple11]

...prob going to be a fight to finish it off  

[Josedinho]

Me. After all that it was still very dull.

[kinboshi]

Good to see the same two teams made the final again though.

[TightEnd]

Shock and Oar?

[craigbetts]

Shock and Oar?

Oarsome 

[bobby1]

Did the winning team dip their cox in the water?

[Ironside]

Did the winning team dip their cox in the water?

think the losing team drowned there's

[Sheriff Fatman]

Compulsive viewing every year for me - this one especially so.

Having spent some time around some of the Blue Boat rowers back in the day, they are among the fittest group of athletes I can imagine.  The preparation leading upto the race is just ridiculous and they still have to study around this.

The biggest surprise yesterday was that only one of the Cambridge crew was studying Land Economy (answering this to 'what are you studying?' usually results in 'what sport do you play?' as a follow up).

[AndrewT]

Judging from the line ups of 27 year old Americans and Germans the Boat Race has more ringers than a telephone factory.

[Graham C]

Judging from the line ups of 27 year old Americans and Germans the Boat Race has more ringers than a telephone factory.

Agree, get a job freeloaders



Poss not actual freeloaders

[Tal]

Compulsive viewing every year for me - this one especially so.

Having spent some time around some of the Blue Boat rowers back in the day, they are among the fittest group of athletes I can imagine.  The preparation leading upto the race is just ridiculous and they still have to study around this.

The biggest surprise yesterday was that only one of the Cambridge crew was studying Land Economy (answering this to 'what are you studying?' usually results in 'what sport do you play?' as a follow up).

Bit harsh! The blue boat are normally grad students, so they're doing MPhils in International Relations They are seriously big blokes, tho. I remember seeing Kieren West close up. He looked like a giant inverted triangle on top of two tree trunks!