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Boat Race Stopped After Swimmer Jumps Into Thames

7th April 2012
Boat Race Stopped After Swimmer Jumps Into Thames

ROWING: The Boat Race in London had to to be stopped after a swimmer jumped into the Thames. The swimmer was pulled out of the water and taken away in a police launch. The decision was made to re-start the race between Cambridge and Oxford on a much shorter course.

Cambridge won the re-started race, but Oxford’s Alex Woods needed medical attention and there has been no trophy presentation.

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Liam Gorman

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Liam Gorman

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Liam Gorman is a writer and reporter. He is the co-author of Little Lady, One Man, Big Ocean, published in the United States and Canada as Crossing the Swell. He is the rowing correspondent of the Irish Times.  

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