{"id":87609,"date":"2019-04-07T15:49:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T13:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/07\/boat-race-2019-cambridge-v-oxford-live-updates\/"},"modified":"2019-04-07T15:49:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T13:49:52","slug":"boat-race-2019-cambridge-v-oxford-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=87609","title":{"rendered":"Boat Race 2019: Cambridge v Oxford \u2013\u00a0live updates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from the women\u2019s and men\u2019s racesYou can email Alex here or tweet him hereCracknell rows himself into the record books at 46Bridgman seeks revenge for Oxford University 2.49pm BST So, attention turns to the 165th men\u2019s race, with James Cracknell\u2019s Cambridge team having won the toss and chosen the Surrey side.Oxford march out to the water. They\u2019re coxed by Toby de Mendonca and are 0.2kg heavier that their rivals (the teams\u2019 average height is exactly equal). 2.44pm BST That\u2019s a third successive win for Cambridge women, who look as spent as they are proud. Their official time was 18min 47secs \u2013 just 14 seconds off the 2017 record, and a hell of a performance. Oxford\u2019s women, meanwhile, are in tears. \u201cWe rode the best race we could have done and were outgunned on the day,\u201d says a magnanimous Ellie Shearer. \u201cThe last week was one of the best of my life \u2013 we\u2019ll be friends for life.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2019\/apr\/07\/boat-race-2019-cambridge-v-oxford-university-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Boat Race 2019: Cambridge v Oxford \u2013\u00a0live updates!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from the women\u2019s and men\u2019s racesYou can email Alex here or tweet him hereCracknell rows himself into the record books at 46Bridgman seeks revenge for Oxford University 2.49pm BST So, attention turns to the 165th men\u2019s race, with James Cracknell\u2019s Cambridge team having won the toss and chosen the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}