The Boat Race
At Oxford University, James was a member of Oxford University Boat Club and took part in the Boat Race in 2006. Both universities had extremely strong intakes that year, with Cambridge boasting several world champions and the Oxford crew including Olympic silver medallists Barney Williams and Jake Wetzel. Oxford, with Jamie in the five seat, won the epic contest by 5 lengths in a time of 18 minutes 26 seconds.
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Famous quotes containing the words boat and/or race:
“When the boat reaches midstream, it is too late to mend the leaks.”
—Chinese proverb.
“This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)