He swam into the path of the Oxford vessel in the 2012 Xchanging Boat Race. Oldfield claimed to be protesting about “elitism” but it transpired that he was himself educated at a private school and the LSE. His hypocrisy knows no bounds and thankfully he ended up in the clink.
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Keep your oar out Oldfield
Profile: Trenton Oldfield: the man who temporarily halted the 2012 Boat Race “Why are the right such angry people?” asked @NotAGateway, the shared Twitter account of Deepa Naik and her boyfriend Trenton Oldfield yesterday afternoon. In this comment, Oldfield, who had just managed to swim into the path of the Oxford boat in […]
Trenton bleats
2012 Boat Race protestor Trenton Oldfield tweets ‘The Steeple Times’ Trenton Oldfield will only ever be remembered for one thing: wrecking the 2012 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. Ahead of today’s race, this “activist” tweeted us to complain that we were “a little obsessed” with him. We can confirm that we are not in the slightest […]
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