PHOTOGRAPHY: BENEDICT TUFNELL
It’s a very different world to the one they left six months ago.
It’s September 1 and athletes and staff have assembled at Ely, Cambridgeshire for the first Boat Race training session at Cambridge University since March 15th - the day the 2020 Boat Races were cancelled. Hand-sanitiser, face masks and physical distancing have become as familiar as water bottles and blister tape - but there is a bigger, more lasting change afoot.