Friday, 12 July 2013


Britain's rowers will have competed their last major event before next month's World Championships when the Lucerne World Cup gets under way on Friday.

The team has won nine medals on home water at Eton Dorney in June.

"Lucerne is not as important as the World Championships in South Korea, but it's a close second,” Olympic champion Alex Gregory said."If you win there, it's gives you confidence going to the Worlds."

Gregory, member of Britain's men's eight crew which came together for this season and is part of GB men's head coach Jurgen Grobler's plan to reinvigorate his team before attention switches to preparing for Rio 2016.

Olympic champion Andy Triggs Hodge, the crew broke the course record at Henley Royal Regatta last Sunday, which follows gold medals at the first two World Cups of the season in Sydney and at Eton Dorney. Read the full article on here.

Written by Tan Yuen Ling


Source by BBC

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