Alex Jacques

Yeah, massive day of the British sporting calendar in the UK is the boat race, university boat race between Cambridge and Oxford.

And yeah, it's the first time I'd ever done a commentary on a rowing contest.

And I thought I'd start with the most famous one of them all.

So no pressure at all.

It was really lovely to learn a new sport from scratch.

But there are parts of it where I was like, could I just not have gone on a beach here?

This would have been nicer to have a holiday than this.

than to learn everyone's backstory.

But it was a lot of fun.

And I'm really glad that Channel 4 asked me to do it.

It was a great day.

Yeah, I think I got that gig because they were like, who's going to get excited at sport?

Oh, yeah, we know a guy.

Yeah, a guy from July at Silverstone.

Yeah, I think you'll be into it.

So I was very, very glad that they rang.

Yeah, it has been a bit of a, not a culture shock, but it certainly led to having to examine what goes into your commentary and what doesn't go into your commentary, certainly from my side, in a way that I haven't had since I started.

And I started commentating in 2011 and I started commentating on motorsport in 2015.

There's always been a muscle memory to it and a rhythm.

Whilst you can get different championships, it's all basically pointed in the same direction.