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New Zealand's elite rowers get their first chance for a collective pre-Olympic workout when the World Cup regatta at Lucerne starts tonight.
All seven crews who have qualified for the Beijing Games in August will be on the water, plus three others with their sights on getting a last-gasp entry in Poland next month - lightweight men Storm Uru and Peter Taylor, lightweight women Candice Hammond and Louise Ayling and the women's eight.
But most interest on Lake Rotsee will centre on the double scullers Rob Waddell and Nathan Cohen. Cohen qualified the boat at last year's world championships with Matthew Trott.
Waddell, who has not contested an international regatta since winning gold at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, will be having his first competitive outing with Cohen.
World champion lightweight men's single sculler Duncan Grant, whose event is not on the Olympic programme, is first in the water at about 7.42 tonight (NZT). The semifinals are tomorrow and the finals on Sunday night.
