Keep up to date with Oxford’s rowers
11 Nov 09
People interested in Oxford’s Boat Race 2010 squad can now keep up to date with all the latest news from the team through a new series of internet blogs.
Fans can visit www.theboatrace.org to access regularly updated written and video diaries from a variety of squad members from both Oxford and Cambridge, right up until race day on Saturday 3 April 2010.
The blogs will focus on all the major training events, social occasions and race fixtures – such as the Fours Head, Trial Eights and winter training camps – and will also provide exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpses of what it takes to compete in one of the toughest sporting contests in the world.
Last month the squads for the big race were announced. Nine countries are represented in Oxford’s squad of 26, including nine Britons, six Americans, three Swiss, two Dutchmen, two Germans, one South African, one Canadian, one Irishman and a female cox from France.
The one returning Blue is this year’s OUBC President Sjoerd Hamburger, the 26-year-old Dutchman who is studying Educational Research Methodology at Oriel. He is the first student to hold the position whose first language is not English.
Returning from the winning Isis boat of 2009 are cox Adam Barhamand (USA), stroke Martin Walsh (Ireland) and Britons Douglas Bruce and Alec Dent.
The squad also includes the Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, who rowed for the USA in the pairs in the Beijing Olympics. The last twins to row in the Race were Hugh and Robert Clay, who won with Oxford in 1982, having won with the Isis crew the year before.
Oxford is hoping for its third consecutive win in the main men’s race following on from last year’s win by three and a half lengths.
The 156th Boat Race, sponsored by Xchanging, will be staged at 16:30 on Saturday 3 April and screened live on BBC 1 within a two-hour programme. The 2009 Boat Race won by Oxford was televised in 153 countries around the world.