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Team GB and Twickenham

BBC reports: Great Britain’s coxless four will race without two first-choice rowers in the Lucerne World Cup as strokeman Andy Hodge nurses a back injury. And, good luck to those racing at Twickenham on Sunday…can’t see a draw as yet, so I hope they’ve sent them out to competitors…

GB trials

Reports from Rachel Quarrell and the rowing service from GB trials

Final: Mahe vs Rob

Mahe wins by a huge, huge margin. Watching on my computer at work – missed the start, but he had clear water over Rob by 500m and just stretched it out rating 28. Well-deserved in my opinion. The NZ Olympic squad is announced on Friday; I think there’d be general surprise if Rob wasn’t featured [...]

When rowing’s the biggest thing in town!

Morning: Just in from Karapiro – Waddell gets race 2. Mahe won the first trials race yesterday quite decisively but Rob’s just edged out race 2 by half a length. So it all comes down to tomorrow … word on the street is that the loser will get a spot in another boat, presumably at [...]

Trials results and NZ nat champs

Results from the February round of GB trials are up here. Don’t know what conclusions can be drawn from that, as a lot of the GB names seem to be missing…? UPDATE: Rachel Quarrell tells me, “Re: the trials results, I don’t know the precise wording, but basically anyone who is accepted as already part [...]

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