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Best bet of the day in this stayers race.
Done a reverse forecast on the field.
Bring it on.
Ha ha.
Now this is a bit of a waste of time as a sport and as a spectacle. Does anyone actually watch it?
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To quote Peter Kay, ‘I’d rather lick my own a*sehole’.
I fail to see the glamour in an event which sees 18 people studying toward utterly pointless degrees for the sole reason of maintaining a place in a rowing team. Having just caught the presentation after an inadvertent flick from BBC2, it would appear that each participant ‘has dedicated the last six months to this race’.
If only we could all spare that much time when struggling through university.
Reducing things to their base level, it’s no more ridiculous than 22 men kicking a ball round a field or, to bring things closer to home, a load of horses running around a bigger field. Two sports I enjoy, but the above may reflect the view of some others.
Each to their own.
I only ever watched it to admire John Snagge’s moustache and to wonder at his vowels
"I can’t see who’s in the lead but it’s either Oxford or Cambridge"
beautifully enunciated
Like Group 1s run on a Wednesday, the Oxbridge sporting Blue is a remnant of a bygone ludicrous-but-colourful age
He can’t read but he’s tall, strong and well-bred – Balliol Boat Club it is then
On a hopefully more interesting note about this Students Sportsday is something which happened on a local radio station a few months back.
The question posed was what is the longest race run under Jockey Club Rules.
Naturally i said Grand National to this work colleague who told it to me but then he said it was the Boat Race.
Being the nerd that i am i found an offical website for the Boat Race and asked them directly and got an answer saying it was just one of those urban myths and is not true.
Prefer to watch the UCI Track Cycling World Championship’s personally – Pendleton, Armistead, Kenny, Cavendish, Sanchez, Bourges, Kanis and Kruperckaite are far more talented than those 14 American’s in a boat will ever be
I fail to see the glamour in an event which sees … people studying toward utterly pointless degrees for the sole reason of maintaining a place in a … team.
Much like US collegiate sports really!
Anyone ever read Friday Night Lights (high school football) or The Last Amateurs (college basketball)
Frightening stuff
Check out some of the 06/07 college bowl games or wikipedia the Death Sentence imposed on Southern Methodist University in the mid/late 80’s.
Prefer to watch the UCI Track Cycling World Championship’s personally – Pendleton, Armistead, Kenny, Cavendish, Sanchez, Bourges, Kanis and Kruperckaite are far more talented than those 14 American’s in a boat will ever be
Having seen Lizzie Armitsteads incredible one-handed ride in the 100 lap sprint (she practically had no feeling in her right hand after a previous crash), and seeing her win a bronze medal in doing so, I thought more would be said about this amazing achievement. After Queen Victoria (Pendleton), surely the cycling world now has Queen Elizabeth!
Darren – AngloGerman
________________________________________‘The Hungarian’s going hell for leather’ – Jim McGrath
I forgot to add Speedy Readey – she has totally the right winning attitude, her BMX stuff at the Olympics was different gear. The look she gave the interviewer when asked why she didn’t just stay on and hold on for silver was priceless, she looked at her like she was from another planet
Ha ha.
Now this is a bit of a waste of time as a sport and as a spectacle. Does anyone actually watch it? :?
I do mate and I enjoy the sheer British eccentricity of the whole thing in this modern sporting wrold of intensity and focus etc. This is the ultimate sporting challenge, the match race ofver the toughest imaginable course, winner takes all, second is to come last with nothing to show for it except a sore arse. What does it matter if it is full of foreigners, just reflects the universities mix. It is part of the British sporting spring along with the Grand National, the start of the Flat and freezing cold point to points (like Horseheath yesterday – rain, wind hail and still the ice cream van did trade, only in this country could that happen). All different from the run of the mill and all the more fun for it.
I only ever watched it to admire John Snagge’s moustache and to wonder at his vowels
"I can’t see who’s in the lead but it’s either Oxford or Cambridge"
beautifully enunciated
Like Group 1s run on a Wednesday, the Oxbridge sporting Blue is a remnant of a bygone ludicrous-but-colourful age
And for that reason it deserves to keep going. So much of our sporting heritage is sacrificed, all in the name of ‘progress.
It also has something to do with the Oxbridge class issue – I’m working class, yet I haven’t a chip on my shoulder because of it……
…funny how the same teams get to the ‘Final’ though.
Good race got 1.909 ‘in rowing’ on Oxford when Cambridge took a slight lead just after the start.
Dont know why betfair layers offered those odds but the draw favoured Cambridge around the first bend.
Whether it is The Derby or The Boat race a 1.909 winner pays out the same and it was easier to find the winner yesterday than it will be come Derby Day.
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