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A fact from The Boat Race 2008 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 July 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the 2008 Boat Race featured the oldest ever competitor, a 36-year-old?
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Just my observation before reading the article......... but I don't remember reading a margin of victory of that large.
Just four years beforehand, the same winning margin for 2004, but noted. The Rambling Man (talk) 06:31, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oxford were clear pre-race favourites don't particularly care for "clear" here. Would prefer you use a quote to explain what the author/source said, or if there's a specific margin, but I don't like just "clear", reeks of WP:PEACOCK
Feel like I've seen Dowbiggin somewhere before, perhaps a note in the "background" section?
It's noted "Both coxes, Brodie and Dowbiggin, were former Blues..." already, was there any more you were looking for? The Rambling Man (talk) 06:31, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
My last name is Monaghan! But on a serious note, the double-dagger in the footnotes doesn't have a corresponding double-dagger in the table, and one of the names is a typo (Monoaghan v. Monaghan).
