It feels that you're part of something very
special because of the history and the
nature of it. It's something not many
people get to ______ in. it's very
unique it's a very unique race very
unique experience, and it changes to any
of the alumni they will remember their
time and it's had a big impact.
- participate
- take part
and just to know that you're one in _________ of
strong passionate committed women who
want to go out there and want to fight
for Cambridge and want to fight against
Oxford it just _____________________.
I mean, you've got guys racing the Olympics
and you'll say to them what was a
turning point in your career? and they
will say: it was the big race.
- that line / gives you such buzz
- that line / gives you such excitement
- that row / gives you such buzz
The aim is really to _________out every
bit of potential we can from the people
who come here.
- squash
- squirk
- squeeze
you know as a coach that's the
really exciting part is you take all
these girls who are so different in
their personalities from different
backgrounds and try and help them to
find their own way to be ______________ they
can be.
- so good as
- as good as
Cambridge is really one of the only
places or you can simultaneously excel _____rowing
and in academia and I think
that's really really special.
- in
- on
- at
we have guys that started running in
Cambridge; we have guys that have been to
the Olympics and there's a really
_________mix, and I think there's a
structure that we provide with the with
the rowing program which helps discipline of
the Scholastic program as ____
- electric / well
- eclectic / well
- eclectic / too
Girls you want to take your one step further;
the experience they'll get at Cambridge will
be ________ any other university in the
world.
- unlike
- like
I definitely wouldn't be _____________
near the Olympic team without without
Cambridge because it's the best
university in the world.
- somewhere
- anywhere
- anyhow
You can't describe how much it means to be able to
line _____against Oxford each year; it's a
very privileged position to be in.
- up
- at
- down
.. there's not many events like it, I mean,
it's just this sort of ____________battle
between two clubs, you know, it’s..
it's sort of good versus evil, I would say.
- Victorian
- declarative
- gladiatorial
It's all one-on-one ________match over
a long choppy twisty stretch of river so it's
pretty dramatic.
and the boat race: you’re Oxford versus Cambridge
one ______will spend six months
training and will win and they'll feel
amazing. The other crew thinks it can’t
train enough for sure and that's the
toughest way to learn something about
yourself.
- grudge / crowd
- fudge / crew
- grudge / crew
Yeah, winning is amazing. You feel so alive.
Winning that vote race when we were
second favorites was the best moment of
my __________life to date.
…lost, they have nothing……
if anyone asked me to name one thing
that has changed my life as a result
fo coming to Cambridge, it would be that I’ll be rowing.
- entire
- sporting
We’ve got a real vision for how Cambridge
University rowing is going to move into
the future, and not just ____a high
performance level but also to be able to
help develop oarsmen and oarswomen and
future Coxswains and to achieve their
potential.
- on
- in
- at
still a sense of passion about
sport and a desire to commit to __________
it is I'm doing at any point in time.
that's what they do
that's the challenge of the race.
- whenever
- whoever
- whatever
it's an absolutely unique place, and to have
missed out on that I can't imagine.
Either I’d be…I dunno, my life _____________
forever just because I made one decision
to come here and I would hate to know
what it was like without that.
- will change
- changed
- has changed
I think see you WBC gave me
the __________about what I could achieve
there lit the spark can help me love
this board.
- belief
- believe
I'm ready for ____________
challenges and I feel that I'm I'm
capable of going out and making a
difference wherever I get and I think
that's very much about what you do as an
individual here.
- taking at
- taking up
Across the generations there have been so many boat race _________
who have gone in to achieve great things
and build great careers after the boat
race, and they're not just willing they
want to help us follow in their
footsteps and achieve great things.
Being a Cambridge _______is a passport to the
world; I mean ,what more can you ask for, huh huh.
- alumnus / rower
- alumni / rower
- alumni / oarsman
and you realize the winning and the
losing; it's kind of the smallest part of
the whole picture, and actually that
_________of sitting on the start line,
wearing light blue, looking across at Oxford
that's the important part.
“yeah yeah” I reached out!
- ride
- pride
Which team is being interviewed?
- Oxford
- Cambridge