Awesome sporting prowess, determination and courage on display at the Boat Race today in horrendous conditions. In particular the Cambridge Women being up to their oxters in water but declining to be rescued and rowing the last 1000m in a cause that was as lost as lost can be

But wtf were the BBC doing with Helen Skelton and some half-wit comedian doing some riverside coverage? Is this some recent BBC charter that says any display of excellence has to be reduced to a nadir of inanity? I wonder if, after the 100m final in Rio they’ll cut to some dumb & dumber duo saying “I don’t know anything about running. But I like his shorts. And look, they’ve got metal spiky things sticking out of their shoes” Why oh why BBC etc etc