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Is rowing elitist? The Boat Race 2012 and Trenton Oldfield

Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2012

So the newsfest that is the 2012 Boat Race continues, and now it appears that we know who the rogue swimmer is: a 35-year-old man named Trenton Oldfield (with a name like that he should have been a rocker, not a protester) wishing to complain about elitism. In an extended rant he set out his [...]

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Boat Race 2012 – a drama, a crisis and learning to be sporting

Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2012

Much is still unclear about the 2012 Boat Race. First and foremost, we don’t yet know how Alex Woods is; the latest we’ve heard is that he’s been taken away in an ambulance, and everyone’s thoughts are of course with him. We don’t yet know who the rogue swimmer was, nor what he was doing [...]

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