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 oarsmen 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.
very old school and very uk based, and seems like almost a glitch in the matrix that 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 not the case in france. people are just rowing in rowing clubs. and so, for example, you will have people who row for their school, but they use the facilities. so rowing club facilities, which makes
l which completes the exceptionally l generous gesture by pope francis similar to the gesture by the government of sicily and the republic of italy a few months ago shows the road that we could follow, that everyone could follow, in order for the unity of the parthenon to be restored, in the place where this should happen. greece is continuing calls for britain to return marbles taken from the parthenon temple by lord elgin in the early 19th century. there s been speculation that the british museum, where they re held, could arrange a loan of the sculptures, but greek ministers say the country could never accept a loan of something they consider stolen. shelley phelps, bbc news. 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
in the us state of utah. giving evidence, the oscar winning actress said she d been hit from behind by terry sanderson, who claims he was the victim. 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 oarsmen 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
and seems like almost a glitch in the matrix that 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 not the case in france. people are just rowing in rowing clubs. and so, for example, you will have people who row for their school, but they use the facilities. so rowing club facilities, which makes the sport definitely