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The Boat Race 2025: When is it, course route and where to watch

The build-up to this year’s Boat Race has been beset by controversy. Oxford insisted that Tom Ford, a gold-medal winner from last year’s Paris Olympics, was ineligible to row for Cambridge because he started his undergraduate degree more than 12 years ago. The dispute then expanded to include three other potential Cambridge rowers, all of whom are studying for PGCE qualifications, which Oxford say makes them ineligible to row too.

James Cracknell, writing exclusively for Telegraph Sport, said: “The situation does not surprise me because there is a bizarre level of pettiness between the two universities.