st599
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Nah, he's made a boring, elitist, anachronistic competition between two teams of ringers watchable.
Moronic swimmer stops The Boat Race
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Nah, he's made a boring, elitist, anachronistic competition between two teams of ringers watchable.
Richard Shead
Slipped Anchor
Totally disagree, I dont know of any other sport that lines the banks of the Thames for miles with thousands and I mean thousands of families enjoying a very good (free) day out...if you aint been dont knock it...if you have then I guess it was not for you.....
Gavi
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Totally agree
Cymrogwyllt
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He's probrbly planted an idea in more than a few attention seekers' minds.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17651637
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17651637
dash300
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The 'Boat Race' is a great visual treat. Not the two sticks racing up the river, but the varied hoard of classic and modern support boats. Seeing the wash catch out a few spectators is amusing as well
Gavi
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The 'Boat Race' is a great visual treat. Not the two sticks racing up the river, but the varied hoard of classic and modern support boats. Seeing the wash catch out a few spectators is amusing as well
Bospherus has just gone past us - doing the same speed as if following an 8!
oldgit
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Bit like MAN U and MAN C playing each other for the last 150 years,lets crawl into the 21st century,open that Thames race to all universities who fancied a go and may the best team really win !
Richard Shead
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MAN ? As in the engines ?
Richard Shead
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If you want a go then get into Oxford or Cambridge !
oldgit
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Na .......doubt either of them has a Pound Shop !
thejonesey
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The other universities do get a go a BUSA championships in Nottingham. It is the biggest regatta in Europe and runs over three days on the pond... so they keep well out of the way of the rest of us
There is also a tasty event at Henley!
Pump-Out
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oldgit
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The other universities do get a go a BUSA championships in Nottingham. It is the biggest regatta in Europe and runs over three days on the pond... so they keep well out of the way of the rest of us
They do.
Its called the Head of the River Race.
So why have we never heard of it or seen it on TV.
Could it just possibly be that the upper echelons of both broadcasting and the funders of same hanker to see the old skool and its predilections on the box ?
chief1
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So why have we never heard of it or seen it on TV.
If you read your Telegraph carefully you might see a paragraph on it, and as for being on the box - for the same reason as we get the Grand National on, but not a quiet midweek afternoon at Folkestone!
Actually the Head of the River on telly would be deadly dull - hundreds of boats streaming down the reverse Boat Race course, normally mid week, starting in the finishing order of last years race, no one would have a clue what was going on as it is all based on starting and finishing times, ie giving an elapsed time, which determines the finishing order. Even boats competing know how they are doing only against the boats around them, no idea of the overall picture. Commentators nightmare!
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Brayman
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So why have we never heard of it or seen it on TV.
If you read your Telegraph carefully you might see a paragraph on it, and as for being on the box - for the same reason as we get the Grand National on, but not a quiet midweek afternoon at Folkestone!
Actually the Head of the River on telly would be deadly dull - hundreds of boats streaming down the reverse Boat Race course, normally mid week, starting in the finishing order of last years race, no one would have a clue what was going on as it is all based on starting and finishing times, ie giving an elapsed time, which determines the finishing order. Even boats competing know how they are doing only against the boats around them, no idea of the overall picture. Commentators nightmare!
Sounds a bit like the Points race in the cycling velodrome!
chief1
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And presumably they only televise that 'cos they are there anyway!!
oldgit
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Shame we are watching a "buggins turn " event regards the O&C ,rather than the best in class ?
No Regrets
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I may be wrong here, but I really don't care about a bunch of stuck up pubic schoolboys in their hateful rowed craft being interrupted by another of their ilk.
The more rowers I meet on the River, the more I detest their obvious distaste of other river users, and lack of any common manners whatsoever.
Before I die, I want to borrow a speedboat, and take them all out in style
I may spare Ramage's lovely fluffy offspring, who is the obvious exception to the rule, but the rest are going to be liquidised by a 200hp Mercury
I hope this doesn't cause offence of course
I clearly shouted 'Good morning' to at least twenty of the snide little gits over the weekend, and had not one glance or nod for my troubles.
Seriously, why should I care!!
The more rowers I meet on the River, the more I detest their obvious distaste of other river users, and lack of any common manners whatsoever.
Before I die, I want to borrow a speedboat, and take them all out in style
I may spare Ramage's lovely fluffy offspring, who is the obvious exception to the rule, but the rest are going to be liquidised by a 200hp Mercury
I hope this doesn't cause offence of course
I clearly shouted 'Good morning' to at least twenty of the snide little gits over the weekend, and had not one glance or nod for my troubles.
Seriously, why should I care!!
apollo
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