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The U.S. Men are in full training mode down in Clemson. The racing is close and in the coming months the 2008 Olympic Team will be named.

Flat water can be a blessing and a curse when the locals want to go water skiing during practice.

James Tomkins has moved from seven to stroke seat and the Australians look to be in good form for the the weekend.
James Merburg, Matthew Ryan, Jeremy Stevenson, Tom Laurich, Sam Conrad, Cameron McKenzie Mcharg, Karsten Forsterling, James Tomkins, Marty Rabjohns(cox)

The Dutch were second in their heat, grabbing a direct spot in the semi-final. David Kuiper, Peter Vos, Daniel Mensch, Roel Haen, Simon Glazenborg, Diederik Simon, Gerritjan Eggenkemp, Mitchel Steenman, Niels Van Den Bovenkamp(cox)

The women's eight won their rep and will be moving on to the semi-finals.

The Russian women's eight got through the first few days of racing, but were disqualified from the competition for anti-doping violations.

The 2006 World Champions will defend their title in their own country this year. The eights race is going to be a barn burner as many countries look to qualify for the Olympics.
Joerg Diessner, Florian Eichner, Ulf Siemes, Jan Tebruegge, Sebastian Schulte, Thorsten Engelmann, Philipp Stueer, Bernd Heidicker, Peter Thiede(cox)

The German women's eight was second at the World Championships last year and much of that boat is represented here.
Josephine Wartenberg, Marlene Sinning, Christina Gerking, Magdalena Schmude, Lenka Wech, Maren Derlien, Nicole Zimmermann, Elke Hipler, Annina Ruppel(cox)

The reigning World Champions and winners at Lucerne this summer, the U.S. Women's eight is: (cox)Mary Whipple, Caryn Davies, Caroline Lind, Susan Francia, Anna Mickelson, Lindsay Shoop, Anna Goodale, Sam Magee and Brett Sickler.

The U.S. lightweight men fine tune their starts with a little side by side piece.
LM4x(str)Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg, Cody Lowry, Jon D’Alba, Sam Saylor

LM8+(cox)Leigh Heyman, Will Daly, John Nichols, Andrew Diebold, Jeff Forrester, Greg Ruckman, Tyler Resch, Gavin Frase, Tim Larson