Elite athletes combine studying at one of the best universities in the world with training for one of the most gruelling races in the world: the Boat Race
have been watching the boat race from 5th Putney scout hut for as long as I can remember just watching it when I was like 4 made me want to do it for some reason
BanjoNick6 · 12m And @CUBCsquad continue to run expensive PR operation to justify the unjustifiable... With every year that passes the denialism with become more risible. Ely is for mileage. Full stop.
i've got a year's experience rowing in a cambridge college so i want to weigh in. you make a good point. cambridge is a very diverse and inclusive university. every year there are more non-white students admitted, and this is not because there are more internationals, there are more non-white british students. the casual clubs are quite diverse, because anyone who's in the university csn join and lots of different people do. however, the elite crews really aren't diverse. most people in blues rowed before they came to cambridge, and this is very unlikely unless you're middle-/upper-class and you live somewhere rowing is popular. overwhelmingly, places where rowing is popular are majority white: Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. also, even within these countries, middle-/upper-class people are disproportionately white. so, you're right, but the bias is largely due to which people are encouraged to take up rowing outside the university. the uni clubs put in effort to be welcoming and even out the imbalance, but there's not much they can do about it. it's a global problem with the sport of rowing - top athletes are white, so non-white people are never really inspired to join in.
have been watching the boat race from 5th Putney scout hut for as long as I can remember just watching it when I was like 4 made me want to do it for some reason
Old winning clips Cambridge.....
The current ones are fun too
Awesome.
it seems like the tide is changing
aged well
BanjoNick6
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@CUBCsquad
continue to run expensive PR operation to justify the unjustifiable... With every year that passes the denialism with become more risible. Ely is for mileage. Full stop.
doesn't seem very inclusive
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i've got a year's experience rowing in a cambridge college so i want to weigh in. you make a good point.
cambridge is a very diverse and inclusive university. every year there are more non-white students admitted, and this is not because there are more internationals, there are more non-white british students.
the casual clubs are quite diverse, because anyone who's in the university csn join and lots of different people do. however, the elite crews really aren't diverse. most people in blues rowed before they came to cambridge, and this is very unlikely unless you're middle-/upper-class and you live somewhere rowing is popular.
overwhelmingly, places where rowing is popular are majority white: Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. also, even within these countries, middle-/upper-class people are disproportionately white.
so, you're right, but the bias is largely due to which people are encouraged to take up rowing outside the university. the uni clubs put in effort to be welcoming and even out the imbalance, but there's not much they can do about it. it's a global problem with the sport of rowing - top athletes are white, so non-white people are never really inspired to join in.