Nathan Cohen is out of the rowing world championships with a heart problem.

Enjoy the spiced cabbage, the short beds and the searing humidity. That's the advice from Seoul Olympic Games bronze medallist Eric Verdonk as the New Zealand rowing team starts its world championship campaign in Chungju, South Korea, today.

Swiss rowing crowds tend to be a tough gig to entertain but Hamish Bond and Eric Murray had them clapping in the aisles at the Rotsee overnight.

Controversy erupted when Robbie Manson and Michael Arms were selected as the new men's double sculls combination for the World Cup rowing season.

At Napier Girls' High School, rower Emma Twigg used to enjoy belting out a bar or two of Jerusalem.

Mahe Drysdale now knows the training anguish he needs to endure to get within striking distance of a medal at the world rowing championships next month in S Korea.

Olympic champion Mahe Drysdale has been beaten in the quarter-finals of the men's single sculls at rowing's Henley Royal Regatta.

With four gold medals and a silver at the season's second World Cup regatta.

It's a proud moment for any parent when their child represents New Zealand in sports - but having two kids do it on the same night calls for a double celebration.

Hamish Bond and Eric Murray created further history at the second World Cup regatta of the season in England.

Hamish Bond and Eric Murray have created further history tonight at the second World Cup regatta of the season in England.

Making cabinets and mentoring rowers may seem strange bedfellows but for Rowing New Zealand's head sculling coach, they are symbiotic.

They have gone unbeaten for four years, capped it with the Olympic gold in London and are about to get back on the World Cup circuit next week.