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Olympics in 2004, Bourne-Taylor returned to Oxford for one final race, this time as President of the Oxford University Boat Club. Both universities had extremely strong intakes that year, with Cambridge boasting several world champions and the Oxford crew
426:, on successive days to move from ninth to fifth on the river, and win blades for the first time in over 80 years. Four years later, Bourne-Taylor was the only surviving crew member, when the 1st VIII repeated that achievement, again moving from ninth to fifth, but this time bumping
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Livingston (Oxford) raced against his older brother James, and a last minute call up for Ben Smith (who joined the
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359:β the night before their Heat in the Olympic competition was a particular blow, and while James returned for the repechage, the crew failed to make the final.
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