OXFORD’S poor recent run in the Boat Race continued as the university was pipped by Cambridge in both the men’s and women’s events. Cambridge won by less than a length in both races, with a rape allegation casting a shadow over the afternoon. A rower from Oxford University Women’s Boat Club has claimed that she was attacked by another student athlete after a night out in the city on October 25. The woman reported the incident to Sir John Bell, a scientist who advises the Government on Covid-19 and sits on the women’s boat club’s executive committee.