We want to take this and teach our athletes that there is a bigger picture. We are thankful we still have a gym and a football field. We are trying to get the kids to learn a life lesson.

This is just a demonstration of how talented those athletes really are. I think from this success, it's even going to create better training environments and obviously hopefully some funding as well.

We will get those guys ready. Neumann has tremendous athletes so it won't take long to get those guys ready.

It's just that we work so well together. We've got tremendous athletes on this team, and I think that's the reason why there were so many turnovers.

They're very balanced, and they have got good athletes. We had the good fortune of going over to watch them a couple of weeks ago against Mount Pleasant, and I was impressed.

It must have been a tough decision for Jurgen. He took all six athletes involved by surprise but I have total faith that what he is doing is in the best interest of the top athletes and British Rowing.