The Boat Race swimmer who screwed the whole thing up was a privately educated 30-something, a graduate of LSE who runs an anti-elitist website... Personally I wish he had saved his efforts to undermine the IOC officials who are unbelievably arrogant and will be lording it over everyone when the Olympics start.
The most shocking thing about the boat race was the obvious fact that both universities are "buying in" talent from abroad, rather as US universities give football scholarships. All those strange doctorates/post-grad studies... do they have time to work, or are they too busy building up their strength in the gym, eating and rowing? I'm not saying Oxbridge aware "Mickey Mouse" degrees - but one can't help wondering about their validity.
The most shocking thing about the boat race was the obvious fact that both universities are "buying in" talent from abroad, rather as US universities give football scholarships. All those strange doctorates/post-grad studies... do they have time to work, or are they too busy building up their strength in the gym, eating and rowing? I'm not saying Oxbridge aware "Mickey Mouse" degrees - but one can't help wondering about their validity.
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