Traditions On Thames

And now to London where its time for the boat race
Every year a quarter of million expectatores travel to west London were they stand along the banks of theriver…Thams…from Patley to Motlake to see the university boat race a worldwide television audience of around four hundred million watch the it’s the race to discover wich team of eight rowswill win .
The dark blues or the light blues of Cambridge an English tradition .

Why is the race so popular, it was and long tradition, and its one a Brittan’s top annualsports gentles others include the FA cup and Wimbledon.
The first race toke place in 1829 at Henley on thams after Cambridge student name Charles Miravel sent to challenge tohis Oxford university friend Charles Woodford Williams Woodford nephew.

The race was so successful the losers Cambridge challenge to the winners to rematch
And thetradition continues today, how good are the teams? The offset often of the Olympics standard training for the races hard begging in September with five or more
sessions perweek.
How can student fiend time to train and study? Actor Hew Laurie better now know Dr House explains I went to Cambridge to raw he admits I studied anthropology becausegive me plenty of time to train he said to greater regretted its to loosing to Oxford in 1980 the favorites .

How you decide wich team to support, this is a common problemfor bust majority of spectators many people beat on race so they supported in a home team indeed news papers endless analyze prospects and the rows in the weeks before the racesome people simply prefer the teams color either light or dark blue well others support the previous year loosing team following the British love for the underdog …