swimmer interrupts boat race

gazza975526570

In my opinion this race is the most uninterested i have ever been to pretty much anything in life.

Why anyone other than with any affiliation to either Oxford or Cambridge is interested in this really confuses me.

System

gazza975526570 wrote: »

In my opinion this race is the most uninterested i have ever been to pretty much anything in life.

Why anyone other than with any affiliation to either Oxford or Cambridge is interested in this really confuses me.

You could say this about any sport where two teams compete. Its a traditonal event which tends to be good television as its usually a good contest.

You can appreciate a good sporting contest without having any emotional ties to either team

Alex-Riley.

well that spiced it up for sure

Crisp_£_note

gazza975526570 wrote: »

In my opinion this race is the most uninterested i have ever been to pretty much anything in life.

Why anyone other than with any affiliation to either Oxford or Cambridge is interested in this really confuses me.

Take the social sport thing out of the equation and I wonder this about most 'sports'

I mean look at it rationaly FootBall for example, a load of people running up and down a field chasing after a round inflated object. Not so much fun is it? Be better if it was a giant beachball perhaps.

And as for cricket and Golf ?!

Rowing seems a lot more fun now :rotfl:

Anyway who invented darts and how?!

shaun_from_Africa

I don't play golf (tried and failed at it), but I will hapilly sit at watch the Ryder cup, especially the 3rd day if the match is close.

jc808

He was protesting about Elitism it seems - good for him

Who cares about the poxy race?

deanos

Is he actually breaking the law, isn't the river public ??

thespiderspeed

jc808 wrote: »

He was protesting about Elitism it seems - good for him

Who cares about the poxy race?

Seems he should of been protesting about himself...according to the Daily Mail (I know but I like the laugh) he is...

Privately-educated Trenton Oldfield, from Whitechapel, London, graduated from the elite London School of Economics in 2008 with an MSc in Contemporary Urbanism. He is also a fellow Royal Society of Arts.
According to his profile on LinkedIn, he has worked and volunteered on a number of charities, trusts and community organisations.
Five years ago he helped found This Is Not A Gateway, a non-profit which ‘creates platforms for critical projects and ideas related to cities’, with fellow activist Deepa Naik.
The pair co-fund the organisation out of their own earnings.
On LinkedIn Mr Oldfield describes himself as: ‘Rich, open-minded, multi-disciplinary, efficient, focused, intelligent, honest, unique.’

So a rich spoilt boy who got a elite education and then felt bad so he needed to do charity work for us poor people so we don't feel held back by elitism. Oh please give me a break!

s_b

the mans a hypocrite then

thespiderspeed

s_b wrote: »

the mans a hypocrite then

Yep. All he did was just spoil a race for two teams of people who had trained bloody hard for it and who then had to restart the race when they had already completed half of it. Prize A Pillock.