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WHY MARCH 2016 SAVED BOAT RACE DAY

WORDS RACHEL QUARRELL PHOTOGRAPHY BENEDICT TUFNELL

Were you watching the Thames on 27th March 2016, perhaps on TV? Or did you check to see the outcome of the Boat Races when you got back home after having a life? Perhaps you missed the point that this year's Oxford and Cambridge match-ups threw a lifeline to what might otherwise have become a competition in jeopardy.

It's the best-known rowing event in the entire world, watched live by several hundred million people, so you wouldn't have thought that Boat Race Day is ever in trouble. Organisers of other rowing races from local rivalries to regional regattas would kill for the public renown and potential sponsorship the historic Oxford and Cambridge race-off brings in its wake.

Henry Hoffstot, Cambridge President
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