Boat Race: 'All we care about is finishing first'

This Sunday sees the 170th men's and 79th women's Oxford and Cambridge boat races take place on the Thames.

Crews will battle it out over a 4.25mile stretch of the river, between Putney and Mortlake, in front of an estimated crowd of 250,000.

For some, though, it's not just Oxford against Cambridge, but north London against south London.

Cambridge president and occupant of the bow seat, Luca Ferraro is a north Londoner who grew up in the shadow of the Emirates stadium. He learned to row in Hackney when he was 15.

And sitting in Oxford's Blue Boat is south Londoner James Doran, who said he is "really proud" of being local to Putney, where he first took to the Tideway.