The Boat Race is Cambridge’s domain once again. Dominant for so much of the event’s recent history, the Light Blues bounced back from a rare defeat in the men’s race last year to return yet another men and women’s double on a blustery Thames.
On a grim spring day, with cold gusts of wind ensuring hats and scarves were compulsory attire for spectators along the 4.25 miles from Putney to Mortlake, the two Cambridge crews ensured the title of university rowing powerhouse remains irrefutable.
The men’s race this year had been seen by many as something for the university rowing purists, with an abundance of undergraduates and total absence of Olympians in either boat.
This was the Boat Race as it was initially meant in the early 19th century, albeit with multiple nationalities represented in both boats.