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At the Olympic regatta on the Henley Royal Regatta course, which only
measured 1900 metres,[17] Bushnell was in the bow and Burnell the stern seat
, or as Bushnell indicated later: "I was on the bridge and Dickie was in the
engine room. In an attempt to avoid the favoured Danish duo of Ebbe Parsner
and Aage Larsen in the semi-finals, Bushnell and Burnell deliberately came
second to France in the first round. According to Bushnell: "Dickie decided
we should lose the first heat so as not to meet the Danes in the semi-final.
... I wouldn't have had the nerve to do that. We could have won, but we
didn't." They subsequently won both the repêchage followed by the semi-
final.