Family, Friends, Crew and Rowing Groupies
Join us this coming Saturday, April 3rd, at 9:00 am (CDT) for The Boat Race Breakfast at Gingers Ale House . BBC America starts its Pre-Race broadcasting at 9:10: the Race starts at 10:30 am We will show 2009 Race during the Pre-Race period. There is no charge to attend. Full breakfast menu available and of course your daily Guinness vitamins will be available along with street parking. RSVP not required but please email me your intentions so Gingers can plan.
Gingers Ale House
3801 N Ashland Ave
Chicago, IL 60613
(773) 348-2767
The 156th Boat Race
For those who have never seen this race, you are in for a treat. You literally have a Coxwains view augmented by overhead choppers following the crews down the Thames River as they battle exactly 4 miles 374 yards on a tide influenced twisting course. Over 6 million people watch this race live worldwide. No race compares for excitement and coverage. Oxford won in 2008, 2009 and 5 out of the last 6 years. Cambridge is favored this year.
The Oxford boat features the Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, sitting next to each other at 3 & 4, plus President Sjoerd Hamburger, the giant 6’ 9” Dutchman who is the Dark Blues sole returning Blue. Also included is 20-year-old Ben Meyers from Kingston-Upon-Thames who was a development squad member last year and has risen to prominence in recent weeks to take the bow seat. The Oxford stroke is another Englishman, Charlie Burkitt from Nottingham. The Oxford boat is made up of three Americans, two Englishmen, one with dual British & Canadian nationality, and individuals from Germany, Holland and Ireland.
Commenting on his selection for his second Race as Cambridge Chief Coach, Chris Nilsson said: “Last year we had five returning Blues, but it’s going to be a good crew with a combination of some international experience and exciting new talent. The choice of cox went down to the wire and it was a close thing between Ted Randolph and Liz Box.” Had Liz made the boat, Cambridge would have been coxed by a female for four consecutive years, as Rebecca Dowbiggin steered the Light Blues in the last three Races.
The Odds: http://www.williamhillmedia.com/index_template.asp?file=1935
BOAT RACE ODDS......Cambridge are 4/7 favourites to win the Boat Race with William Hill who make Oxford 5/4 and offer 100/1 about a dead heat.Hills offer 10/1 about either boat sinking and 7/1 that the leader at Barnes Bridge fails to win - as happened last year.
Cambridge Ideas: The Perfect Crew?
More
http://www.theboatrace.org/
http://www.theboatrace.org/article/introduction/history
On BBC-America
If you can't hop a cab, plane or find your feet to join us at Gingers, you can see it on BBC-America ( Comcast; Dish and Direct TV) Rumor has it they will stream it live as well. Check your local time.
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