article_snippet.sent: Melissa Wilson and Melissa Wilson team-mates are on the brink of making history.
article_snippet.sent: After decades of campaigning and 88 years since the first women to race were jeered by male spectators, decades of campaigning and 88 years since the first women to race were jeered by male spectators get equal billing.
article_snippet.sent: So the fact that 10 years on there is a women’s race on the Tideway and I’m in it is pretty remarkable.
article_snippet.sent: But there will never be another first women’s Boat Race on the Tideway.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The first women’s race was in 1927 and there were a lot of people against The first women’s race, talking about whether women should be rowing at all and what women should be wearing, so women were the pioneers.
highlights_snippet.sent: After decades of campaign the women's crews are to make history .
  