Facebook row duo in Oxford squad

University Boat Race: Oxford v Cambridge
Venue: River Thames, London Date: 3 April 2010, 1630 BST
Coverage: Watch live on the BBC

The American twins who sued the founder of Facebook have been named as part of this year's Oxford Boat Race squad.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss claimed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a fellow Harvard University student, stole ideas from their site.

The parties reached a confidential settlement agreement in February 2008.

The duo, 28, went on to reach the Olympic pairs final in Beijing later that year and are now part of a squad of 26 for the Boat Race on 3 April.

Half of the Cambridge squad of 28 is British, including last year's president Henry Pelly.

Deaglan McEachern, Rob Weitemeyer and Hardy Cubasch also return from the Cambridge crew who lost to Oxford by three-and-a-half lengths last March.

Oxford's only returning Blue is president Sjoerd Hamburger, the 26-year-old Dutchman who is the first non-native English-speaker to lead a Boat Race crew.

The last twins to row in the Race were Hugh and Robert Clay, who won with Oxford in 1982.

The university squads began training in September, with their first public outing the Head of the River Fours time trial event in London on 14 November.

Entries for that event closed on Friday, with the Winklevoss twins entered in Oxford's top coxed four, along with Hamburger and Irishman Martin Walsh. Cambridge have spread their top rowers over three crews.

Both squads hold selection events in December before announcing their final line-ups in the new year.

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