The Boat Gave 2025: Oxford V Cambridge – Live | The boat race
Key events
Red flag
The race is stopped while the oars were crashing into each other. Matthew Pinset, the referee, even mentions a disqualification for Oxford … but no: he opted for a restart. A third of an advantage of length in Cambridge. What a drama!
Cambridge makes the best start, Win out, cleaner in the first shots. A long way to go. Matthew Pinsent already with a white flag in Oxford while the oars approach the clash. They clash!
We are underway in the race to the female boat!
The two teams are out! I am reliably informed that the conditions are fixed for a quick time, but who will be the fastest time? We will know in about 18 minutes.
Word from the correspondent of the guardian, Luke McLaughlin, who is in Mortlake. Perfectly set the scene …
The accumulation has been controversial, not to mention anything else, but everything is calm at the media center of the boat, located at the Quintin Boat Club on the north side of the river (or at the Middensex station). No stall button among the rivals of group groups, which I saw, but then there are no spectators in this part of the river.
In a few minutes the female crews will stop in the water outside after an exhausting race of over four miles and 374 yard. Only one of the crews will feel that every month of blood, sweat and tears have paid dividends. Post-gara quotes should be fascinating given all the disputes on admissibility in recent weeks.
There are hundreds of thousands of people who flank the banks of the Thames Or dangling the legs on the bridges, the number that grows continuously on an increasingly sunny day. About 10 minutes at the start of the women’s race!
Matthew Pinsent, referee for the female race, He is talking about the BBC and says he is ready for unexpected. It is beneficial that we have seen some things over the years, including “Platina and swimmers”. Yikes. It will be a remarkable race if we get it.
This is the 79th women’s boat matchCambridge has a healthy advantage: 48 wins at 30 Oxford wins. The Dark Blues won this race in 2016 and the subfami again today are again today. Can they remove the disturbance on the tide today?
Perhaps a little late for this, but in the event that you are at home in your sockets, unable to leave until you decide which clothes to put and precipitate to the Thames … Guardian style team has put this elegant clothing guide together. Personally I wear it all at the same time.
Female racing crews
Oxford: Sarah Polson, Lilli Freischem, Tessa Haining, Alexia Lowe, Sarah Marshall, Annezakis Annezakis, Kyra Delray, Heidi Long. Cox: Daniel Orton.
Cambridge: Katy Hempson, Gemma King, Carlys Earl, Annie Wertheimer, Sophia Hahn, Claire Collins, Tash Morrice, Samantha Morton. Cox: Jack Nicholas.
The referee is someone called Matthew Pinsent. What do you know?
Oxford women’s crew transports their boat to waterTo join Cambridge who are already there. The launch of the coin happened e Oxford won And he chose the Surrey side: this means they get the advantage of the second curve. It looks like a beautiful day in London with just a little cloud in the sky to stop that ruthless sun. Ideal!
A more edifying and enhancer story of Oxford’s rivalry against Cambridge It comes through Matt Hughes. He spoke with Heidi Long and Claire Collins, who were born on the same day and corrected 15 times. They come back today with everything that is on the line: epic things.
Preamble
It is rather toxic in the accumulation of the boat competitions of 2025 – and we do not only mean the Water pollution and and coli in the Thames. There was a line of admissibility criteria between the two fierce rivals, with three students of Cambridge – two rowers, one male – prohibited by the race because they studied for the post -Rashal certificates in education (Pgce) rather than a degree.
This led to IMOGEN GRAT, the Double Sculls Olympic champion and a three -time winner of the boat race with Cambridge, accusing Oxford of “Viscid tactics” In March, among the chatter of academic snobbery. An independent panel, however, saw things the way of the boat club of the University of Oxford.
So we ready the playlist before the 2025 event: toxic, bad blood, Erm … is the tide high? Of course, the state of the river is a serious question. The tests carried out by the aquatic activists along the four miles route revealed levels of Elo coli three times above the threshold for the “poor” water state. Last year, the Oxford team revealed that some of their crews had been sick in the accumulation.
As for the races themselves: Cambridge boasts a recent domain. The light blues stand for a hat -trick of victories in the 170th man’s race, while the women’s team is trying to lengthen an even more impressive race. They won the last seven races on the boat, even if last year it was a dramatic deal with the dark blues that took an initial advantage. Oxford can turn the tide, so to speak? We find out with the women’s race starting at 13.21 bst, men starting at 14:21.
