Amazing documentary. Great portrayal of the psyche of a rower and the collective drive of a team & their coach. Any expected date for when the second part will come out?
Check your facts - Brits tried first. Look at the 1922 Expedition article on Wikipedia, first effort at summiting Everest. Counts as "at the forefront" don't you think?
As a Dutchman here...your response is quite overdone. The fact is, the british do have a history of outstanding human achievements, which is hard to beat by anyone of us outside the UK Normally, your sort of over-sensitiviness might be a strong indication of a minority-complex. Perhaps country-size has someting to do with it. The Netherlands do also have this tendency of overreacting.
atye smony That's absolute tosh! Few of the people I know who were up at Cambridge or Oxford are upper class. Traditionally in the greater scheme the universities teams weren't up there in the stratum of elite sport, it was just a derby. This has changed over the last few decades.
Notice that these days the initial trials don't even involve the ability to move a boat through the water. Maybe one day they will just turn the race into an ergo race. Why bother with skill?
We're filming a video this year, @Chloe Russell-Thompson ! Watch this space. Congratulations on the women's team for their victory in 2013.
Amazing documentary. Great portrayal of the psyche of a rower and the collective drive of a team & their coach. Any expected date for when the second part will come out?
What is the music on the background? It's beautiful!
Wonderful background music...just Oxford Uni :)
it was good to see what the other side thinks - better luck next year Oxford!
go Cambridge!!
As a New Zealander here, this must be said...
"Britain leads the world in many things...Whether its climbing Mt Everest,". ಠ_ಠ
We did that. Not you.
One dislike is from cambridge
3:12 i think his oars are put in backwards lol
Where's the women's team?
oxford boat race trials erg test- all sub 6:15's
Check your facts - Brits tried first. Look at the 1922 Expedition article on Wikipedia, first effort at summiting Everest. Counts as "at the forefront" don't you think?
This year,,,
As a Dutchman here...your response is quite overdone.
The fact is, the british do have a history of outstanding human achievements, which is hard to beat by anyone of us outside the UK
Normally, your sort of over-sensitiviness might be a strong indication of a minority-complex. Perhaps country-size has someting to do with it. The Netherlands do also have this tendency of overreacting.
hahaha, well put
it is a bow rigged scull
00:45 I do not doubt it's tough, but it's upper-class folly. The Olympics are a different kettle.
atye smony That's absolute tosh! Few of the people I know who were up at Cambridge or Oxford are upper class. Traditionally in the greater scheme the universities teams weren't up there in the stratum of elite sport, it was just a derby. This has changed over the last few decades.
Hillary was a Kiwi, not a Brit.
Notice that these days the initial trials don't even involve the ability to move a boat through the water. Maybe one day they will just turn the race into an ergo race. Why bother with skill?
Oh dear, all for nothing.