Canadian Olympian Malcolm Howard says he gets excited for the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race the same way NHLers are pumped for an outdoor game.
A normal regatta has multiple crews covering a 2,000-metre straight course. The Boat Race is a gruelling 6.8 kilometres on a horseshoe-shaped stretch of the River Thames between Putney and Mortlake in southwest London.
A rower originally from Winnipeg has won the race of his life, as a member of the Oxford University crew that won the 2014 BNY Mellon Boat Race on the River Thames on Sunday.
Tom Watson grew up in Winnipeg but is rowing for Oxford in the 160th annual Boat Race, which pits Oxford against Cambridge in a gruelling 6.8-kilometre race on a horseshoe-shaped stretch of the River Thames between Putney and Mortlake in southwest London.
Oxford & Cambridge Society of Toronto watched the race:
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