After last year's event was curtailed by Covid, the Boat Race landed here for the second time in 191 years. And yet they produced the closest men's race since 2003 and the tightest women's battle for nine years. The Cambridge men's team won for the third consecutive year in the 166th year of the raceOxford triumphed on that dull February afternoon, when locals packed on to the raised banks. 'Bloody straight, bloody cold and bloody boring,' as a Cambridge cox once put it. As for the Cambridge crews, a long night awaits.

Source: Daily Mail April 04, 2021 21:30 UTC