Anyone watching the Boat Race?

[TressiliansStone]

Channel 4 this year, 171st Men’s race🚣, 80th Women’s race🚣.

Women going first at 14:21.📣

Is that why you think they had him? I thought it was deeply bizarre. As far as I know he has no connection to rowing, and in an afternoon where they had the Youth Boat Race to try to broaden access to rowing get children from state schools that don’t usually row involved, having someone whose main claim to fame is being ‘posh’ as well as witless seemed like a mixed message.

Ex-rower so always watch. A friend of mine rowed for Cambridge in the 80s he made the blues boat 3 times. Also, more recently, one of the lads in the year above DS at school has made the blues boat twice and this year is in the reserve boat.
The rowing club I rowed for has always had a strong association with Cambridge so we traditionally support the light blues.
Having rowed and coxed the course, albeit the opposite way round, it is not easy.
When you watch the race it’s often difficult to appreciate just how much work goes into the training needed to reach the standard you can see.

get in! 🩵

but what is Jamie Laing DOING? Awful!

Oh, it’s a brutal race, and in today’s conditions even harder than usual.

To be fair, I thought he did the announcement to the presentation quite well. However, the interview with the cox earlier was more slapdash. His podcast, though, is actually quite good.

I think it's a shame that the teams aren't made up of undergraduates rather than lots of people who are brought in from all over the world to "do a Masters or similar" but actually totally on their ability to row.
I was always a Cambridge girl as a child but switched to Oxford when DS went to Keble as a post graduate.
I thought we might get a sinking this year.

A sinking crossed my mind as well.

This idiot can’t even understand a mistake - did he not even watch the race!??

Could Jamie Laing have got that any more wrong. Saying the wrong name for the losing side ! Just embarrassing!

Oops!

I'm cringing at that! What an embarrassing cock up.

Clare being tactful signing off there. Good old Clare.

All Jamie could say was ‘how are you feeling’ - he seemed to have no facts or knowledge to contribute at all!

I’m now recovering from my DH’s annual helpful instructions bellowed to the crews - on TV, not in person. He gets very involved ! He was a club rower on the Thames, not a college rower, and knows every piece of vulnerability and advantage on that course. We both gasped when a log floated into view, which Oxford had to skirt ( they weren’t going to win at that point, anyway)

Strange collection of presenters.

I know, he only had two to choose from! Blimey.

Safe pair of hands. Though to my 14 year old she will always be the woman who made a big error in the Trojan Horse task in Celebrity Traitors…😀

Jamie Laing was an utterly bizarre choice as co-host… I know he’s a channel 4 product but really?!

usually do. Had no idea it was on though. Didn't check what was on today I've been out. Got back and saw it was on. Never mind.

I’m also from Essex, and Hannah Fry ‘ain’t got an Essex accent babes.😉

Her voice is gorgeous because it’s refined RP but without any sneering, upper class drawl. Stephen Fry has a lovely voice as well.

Both races were incredibly exciting yesterday. I think the choppy conditions added such a sense of drama.

I love it when anyone breaks a losing streak so the women’s was brilliant for me. The men’s was good too.

i was listening to the radio and someone said it’s 100 years next year for the women’s race and suggested the men should go first and women second next year.

The fact a boat could’ve sunk made it exciting too.

We watched, both teens are rowers so it kind of dominates. By all accounts there are 'better' events, but we all love the pomp and tradition of this one.

I googled yesterday and the Americans and other tourists love it! No equivalent in USA. Plus stallgilders bar owners get away with serving crepes and Bollinger for ridiculous prices.

When I went a few times and in Putney (00s) it was nuts but a lot of fun. My Irish male platonic friend adored it!

Stall holders not holders!