Grainger Looking Good for that Elusive Olympic Gold

Amid all the Premiership football, autumn international rugby matches and the Brazilian Grand Prix you may have noticed that Britain did rather well in the world rowing championships down in New Zealand and that Katherine Grainger picked up yet another world title, this time in the pairs with her new partner Anna Watkins.

Sportsvibe are unashamed admirers of Katherine, the Steve Redgrave of women's rowing, who is the most successful British oarswomen in the history of the sport.

Yesterday saw her claim a fifth world title that bodes well for the 2012 London Olympics, where the real story lies.

An intelligent woman who is great company, and who is still studying a degree in "homicide," of all courses, Katherine has won silver medals at the last three successive Olympics, which is impressive by anyone's standards but increasingly frustrating for the Scot who was reduced to tears after claiming second once more in Beijing in 2008.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if Katherine could bow out of her sport with an Olympic gold hanging around her neck at Eton, of all places, the venue for the 2012 Games?

God knows she deserves it. And, after her dominant display yesterday in New Zealand with Anna, there is every chance of that fairy tale ending.