- Live updates: women’s race 2.46pm GMT, men’s 3.46pm
- Pulling together: Tom Jenkins’ Boat Race photo essay
Will Thames Water’s failures know no bounds? The latest calamity of the UK privatised water industry is that the Boat Races – one of the most British of fascinations – will not feature the winners’ traditional post-race cox dunk into the river. Alas, decades of neglect and sewage dumping by the local water company have led to race organisers issuing tough new safety guidelines to combat the dangerously high levels of E coli in the Thames. At least the rowers are smart enough to know better than ignore them.
Welcome to the annual battle of the boats between Cambridge v Oxford, this year with added excrement excitement.
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