to invent him... Gregor Oxford Brookes has the best Uni rowing team Rod. Alpha What a good article. Good stuff Rod. You're right, any kind of anti-winner, anti-success eduation is patently bonkers. I just hope you, as a parent, manage to instill in your children a more realistic sense of the value of working hard and handling competition in a grown-up way, than these ridiculous teachers. Minekiller I just love the sports day story Rod! Last season we brought our girls hockey team over from Amsterdam to play one of your fine hockey clubs, where the child protection policy (in a game where objects like cannonballs fly around), is taken more seriously then the coaching or skills training. Result....your nice English girls with the PC paretns lost 7-0!! Keep it up England, the bigger losers you become, the more trampled upon you will become in everything, sport included. HJ Boat Race 'imports' apart (who probably wouldn't be there were it not for the prestige that comes from TV coverage), the best rowing universities include Durham, Reading, Oxford Brookes, Imperial, Newcastle, not Loughborough or Birmingham. The joke in rowing circles is that Oxford university isn't even the best rowing university in Oxford. The bizarre thing is that the Women's Boat Race will also be televised from 2015 -- this is clear promotion of elitism and privilege by the BBC. Cambridge and Oxford women's crews have just proved themselves (at the Women's 8s Head) to be the 2nd and 5th fastest university