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For Greg Searle, back in an Olympic boat at the age of 40 after 10 years away from the sport, being selected was an emotional moment: "It seemed an incredible thing to think I could make the Olympic team at 40.

The 27-year-old starred alongside Andy Triggs Hodge, Peter Reed and Steve Williams as Great Britain's coxless fours - traditionally Britain's flagship Olympic boat - won their third successive Olympic crown in China.

The 16-person sailing team is packed with star performers – such as double gold medallist Iain Percy teamed with Andrew Simpson, who won a gold in Beijing, in the Star class, the oldest of the Olympic boats.

But while Garbett's pair performed well against the other Olympic boats during the 2km time-trial on Monday, the Athens Olympian finished just under a second over the challenging mark he was set.

The rowers, who earned six medals - including two golds - at the 2008 Games, won medals in 10 Olympic boats with three gold, three silver and four bronze at their world championships in Slovenia in September.

United States crews won two gold medals and two silver medals yesterday at the world rowing championship for non-Olympic boat classes in Zagreb, Croatia.

However, they provide an opportunity to gain valuable experience competing on the world stage and impress selectors in the hope of getting promoted into an Olympic class boat.

Peter Chambers has broken into the Olympic-class boat after winning world titles at Under-23 and senior level in the non-Olympic class lightweight men's pair last year with Newcastle's Kieren Emery.

This includes the organising and delivering of the S&C programme to the Olympic Class Boats.

Now, young sailors like Clay Johnson are graduating from the Optis, whose upper age limit is 16, and moving into Olympic class boats like the Laser.

And of course there was Gregory, maintaining the 16-year tradition that the men's four always contain one member of the previous Olympic-winning boat.