Boat Race won by crew that rowed faster

Rowing eight, AI generated picture showing a boat with seven rowers and no cox. Sigh.

For the 170th year in a row, the Oxford-Cambridge boat race has been won by the crew that rowed faster than the other one. 

The two boats started off level, as is traditional, but as soon as the starting gun went off and the rowers started rowing, it was clear that one of the boats was moving faster than the other. As a result, it reached the finish line sooner and was judged to have won.

'Yup, really happy about that,' said Toby Jeremy of the winning crew. 'Our plan had always been to row faster than the other crew, and in the event we did, which is why we won.'

'Very disappointing,' admitted Jeremy Toby of the losing boat. 'We also had intended to row faster than them - in fact, we did a great deal of training in the hope of ensuring that would be the case. But it seems they trained in a similar manner, and in the end rowed faster than us.'

Meanwhile, a number of physicists, at these two universities and others, declared they had always believed that an object travelling at a fast speed between two points would cover the distance more quickly than one moving at a slower speed.

'Yes, I’d say we were pretty certain about that. All the same, it’s nice to have it confirmed.'

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