the son of andrew lloyd webber, has died at the age of a3. in a statement on twitter, his father said i am shattered to have to announce that my beloved elder son nick died a few hours ago in basingstoke hospital. his whole family is gathered together and we are all totally bereft. he had previously said nick had been hospitalised after living with gastric cancer for 18 months. from the suburbs of paris, to the cambridge university boat race crew, it s been quite the journey for 21 year old noam mouelle. on sunday, he ll become one of a very small number of non white oarsmun, to take part in the historic annual contest on the river thames. he s been speaking to our sports reporter, james burridge. je m appelle noam mouelle, etje prepare la boat race avec cambridge. it s quite something, i would say, it s very challenging. there is a lot of pressure, obviously.
to the cambridge university boat race crew, it s been quite the journey for 21 year old noam mouelle. on sunday, he ll become one of a very small number of non white oarsmun, to take part in the historic annual contest on the river thames. he s been speaking to our sports reporter, james burridge. je m appelle noam mouelle, etje prepare la boat race avec cambridge. it s quite something, i would say, it s very challenging. there is a lot of pressure, obviously. i ve never been that stressed, stressed out about rowing in my entire life. noam mouelle s mum wanted him to do an outdoor sport. little did she know how far that sport would take him from the suburbs of paris to the wild and lonely great ouse, for one of rowing s biggest endeavours, the boat race.
A PhD student from France who was part of a winning Boat Race crew yesterday is believed to be the first black competitor in the 194-year history of the men’s event.Noam Mouelle was rowing for Cambridge as they beat Oxford by one-and-a-third lengths on the Championship Course in southwest London. Th
when you tell people in france, so people who don t do rowing, that you re doing the oxford cambridge boat race, it s a bit like. it s hard for them to imagine, right? because it s something that seems very old school and very uk based, and seems like almost a glitch in the matrix. a french guy could do this thing. while the boat race has always had an international flavour it attracts many rowers from around the world it doesn t have a great reputation when it comes to diversity. in fact, noam is that rare exception this year. across the board, when you look at rowing clubs in this country, just 6% of its members come from diverse backgrounds. people in the uk mostly learn to row in schools, and for your school to have enough money, let s say, to have good rowing equipment and so on, you need to be in a private school. and it s only a certain demographic which goes into private schools, which is why maybe you have a bit less diversity here in rowing, at least. but that s really no