Mahe Drysdale is trying to regain the rowing fitness he lost during his sabbatical. Photo / Christine Cornege
Mahe Drysdale's hotel room has been turned into a secret rowing lair as he campaigns to win an unprecedented sixth world championship single sculls crown.
The Olympic champion has even ceased leaving his barracks to ride on South Korea's roads after colliding with a light truck last week. A wind-trainer
has been set-up at his HQ instead, presumably with towels liberally dotting the floor to prevent a brine-soaked carpet.
The 34-year-old has been venturing out for practice rows to acclimatise to South Korea's humid conditions but otherwise it's back to the familiar eat-train-sleep routine as he attempts to regather the rowing fitness he lost during his sabbatical.
His time away ended with third at Amsterdam's Holland-Beker regatta in late June.
He bowed out of the last eight at the Henley Royal Regatta the following week to Aleksandr Aleksandrov of Azerbaijan by four and a half lengths. As a gauge, Aleksandrov finished fifth at the Olympics.
