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1:05 PM April 14, 2021
King’s Ely housed crew members from Oxford University Boat Club (OUBC) women s crew in the week leading up to The Boat Race.
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The President of Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club (CUWBC) spoke to students at King s Ely just days after the crew won The Boat Race on Ely’s River Great Ouse.
Sophie Paine, who has been president of CUWBC since August 2020, visited on April 7 to meet staff and students from King’s Ely Boat Club.
Having talked about CUWBC’s preparations for The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, she said: It was special to share the success with rowers who know what it’s like to row on the Ouse. Best of luck to all of the rowers in the future.”
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The spokesperson said they understood the number of officers deployed was 120 “due to the scale of the area that needed to be covered, approximately 10km”.
But Mr Moss-Eccardt said: “I am surprised to find this described as a not-for-profit event as there was clearly corporate sponsorship”.
Boat Race 2021 Ely
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Mr Moss-Eccardt, Lib Dem candidate for police and crime commissioner in the May elections, said: “We have recently had to cut our much-loved PCSOs due to a budget shortfall.
“To spend even more money, albeit for a national event, is disappointing.”
The Boat Race Company Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Oxford and Cambridge Rowing Foundation, a UK based charity.
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OXFORD’S poor recent run in the Boat Race continued as the university was pipped by Cambridge in both the men’s and women’s events. Cambridge won by less than a length in both races, with a rape allegation casting a shadow over the afternoon. A rower from Oxford University Women’s Boat Club has claimed that she was attacked by another student athlete after a night out in the city on October 25. The woman reported the incident to Sir John Bell, a scientist who advises the Government on Covid-19 and sits on the women’s boat club’s executive committee.