Off Track ..... Grainger to team: Row or die

Kath Grainger, Britain's most successful Olympic oarswoman, has adopted drastic methods to keep her quad crewmates on their toes, according to a report in British tabloid the Daily Mail, by reading aloud passages from Don't Rock the Boat, a book recounting how Australian rower Sally Robbins lay down exhausted halfway through the eights final in Athens four years ago and so cost her team an Olympic medal. That Grainger is studying homicide as part of a doctorate in forensic science is unlikely to have escaped her colleagues either.