Obliquely related to the piece I wrote yesterday about Saturday’s controversial Boat Race, while I was looking for something just now I found this article that I wrote for the Daily Telegraph many years ago, which tells the story of an occasion when the Boat Race was indeed re-rowed because of something that was somewhat dubiously categorised as “equipment failure”.
Equipment failure
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Tagged with 1951 Boat Race, Boat Race, Boat Race re-rowed, Boat sinks in the Boat Race, controversy in the Boat Race, equipment failure, Fulham Wall, Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, Oxford sink, rowing, University Boat Race rules.
By mark.davies@camberton.com – April 9, 2012
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