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The 21-year-old, from Nottingham, defended her double scull title at the World Under 23 Championships in July.

She won silver at the 2000 Olympics in the quadruple scull - Britain's first women's crew to medal - and gold at the 1998 world championships in the double scull, among other awards.

Before the Games there was some speculation that the British eight, the European champions, could have been joined by Katherine Grainger and Vicky Thornley when their double scull boat was dissolved.

I am going to pull for the Americans in the men’s double scull, but I intend to become a maven on the pairs from New Zealand and Slovenia.

Australia's women's eight, Italy's men's eight, Greece's men's lightweight four and Italy's women's lightweight double scull all got late entries for the Aug. 6-13 Rio competition.