Cambridge men's chief coach Rob Baker feels the University Boat Race crews must gear themselves up for "a big grind" when they go flat out on the Great Ouse.
Cambridge men's chief coach Rob Baker feels the University Boat Race crews must gear themselves up for "a big grind" when they go flat out on the Great Ouse.
Winckless is hoping for a smooth experience this weekend
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For a pioneer, Sarah Winckless is keen to remain in the shadows. This weekend she will become the first woman in the event’s 166-year history to umpire the men’s University Boat Race. But she hopes no one will even notice she is there.
“I’ll start the race by waving a red flag and finish it by waving a white one,” she says. “And if I do nothing else in between it will have been a successful race for me. I’ve briefed both crews and if they do as I have asked I will have absolutely nothing to do.”
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It’s probably necessitated by Covid regulations, but having the historians speaking unseen (talking non-heads, as it were) is refreshingly non-distracting. In the second episode of this life of Winston Churchill, Tessa Dunlop’s disembodied voice describes Churchill as “one of the most ambitious men who ever lived”, and by the time we reach the First World War, the 40-year-old Churchill is in charge of the British Navy and one of the five members of the war cabinet. And then he dreams up the idea of invading Germany’s ally Turkey by way of Gallipoli. In disgrace, Churchill enlisted for the trenches and began the long road back to power.