 Cambridge president and number six West said "Both teams had a good row but we had good rhythm and pushed really hard", while Oxford president Snow remarked "The Boat Race is not fair... six months' work to be screwed by the system.We have got to deal with that".BBC commentator and former Light Blue president Richard Phelps believed that Cambridge "deserved" the win and that "it was the superior power and application of it that saw Cambridge slowly pull clear of Oxford".