17. Trouble on the Thames: Event Disruption, Public Protest, or Public Disorder

John Davies, Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington

Introduction

The Boat Race is a highlight event on Britain’s sporting calendar, with a standing and importance in the sporting psyche of the nation that denies it being just a race between two amateur crews of eight, plus a cox, from Oxford and Cambridge universities, also known as Oxbridge. The race has taken place on the River Thames almost without break since 1845 on a winding 4 miles, 374 yards (6.8km) course up river between Putney Bridge and Chiswick Bridge, Mortlake, in South West London.1 (The race is timed to start on the incoming flood tide, an hour before high tide, so that the crews ...

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