Rowing: Katherine Grainger begins her quest for world title

All but the first five races of the opening day of the World Rowing Championships were abandoned due to high winds at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand, yesterday, and this means that three of the Scots on the British team will be in action in today'sre-cast programme.

Among these, along with her partner Anna Watkins, three-times Olympic silver medallist and four-times world champion Katherine Grainger lines up as favourite to win her opening double sculls heat and proceed straight to the final despite having European champions Germany beside her.

In another unexpected move, Grainger's event will not now have a semi-final stage, because of drop-outs, and this makes it even more important that the British duo get it right today.

Lossiemouth's Heather Stanning will be racing earlier than Grainger, alongside Helen Glover in coxless pairs, as she makes her senior debut, while Aberdeen's Kate Jones will compete in the adaptive coxed fours.