New Zealand will send its strongest individual sports team to an Olympic Games in Rio.

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Olympic rower George Bridgewater is a finance whizz who's made the biggest trade of his life, and he'll be expecting to collect.

New Zealand is aiming for 14 medals in Brazil, which would exceed the record-equalling tally of 13 in London (2012) four years earlier.

Think of New Zealand's rowing crews challenging for medals at the Rio Olympics and certain names leap to mind.

New Zealand's bid to send a coxless four to Rio ended with FISA confirming Russia will cobble together a crew.

They both won gold medals in their respective fields at London 2012 and are considered to be one of the greatest of all-time in their

Eleven crews - including the 10th placed Russians - qualified at last year's world championships.

The Australian women's eight will race at Rio with a borrowed boat and oars after Russian boats were withdrawn.

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Our oldest champion from the London Olympics isn't ready to hang up his oars just yet.

It remains business as usual for the one New Zealand rowing crew still on the cusp of a late callup to the Rio Olympics. The men's

The Herald is counting down New Zealand's 25 greatest Olympians. Today, Michael Burgess profiles No 19, rower Rob Waddell.

One half of the New Zealand men's pair rowing combination Eric Murray joins the Crowd Goes Wild Breakfast on Radio Sport to chat about

Mahe Drysdale has been upset in the final of the Henley Royal regatta. Hannes Obreno of Belgium has beaten Drysdale by two lengths

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A large chunk of New Zealand's Olympic rowing squad have been in Sursee, half an hour north of Lucerne, for the past week through until the end of next week.

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Nine down, five to go - that's New Zealand's mission boiled down at the final rowing qualifying regatta for the Rio Olympics, starting in Lucerne tomorrow.