Rowing: Wait prolonged for NZ rowing pair

BEIJING - The New Zealand women's pair of Juliette Haigh and Nicky Coles will have to wait another 24 hours to contest their repechage after their race was shifted to tomorrow.

They were to contest their cut-throat four-crew race today but a thunderstorm late in yesterday's session forced a shuffle to the regatta schedule.

Haigh and Coles will need to finish first or second to qualify to Saturday's final.

High performance manager Andrew Matheson said no other New Zealand crews had been affected by the changes.

- NZPA