British hearts were tested this morning as the open men's quadruple scull and men's four faced a last-chance repechage to progress at the World Championships and keep their World and Rio Games' hopes alive.
Perhaps the supporters should not have worried unduly as both boats won their repechages and now go through to the semi-finals on Thursday.
The men's four of Scott Durant, Alan Sinclair, Tom Ransley and Stewart Innes trailed Argentina in the first part of the race but came through to take the lead just before halfway, building a length over the field by 1500m. Behind them, the Spanish surged past Argentina.
The British quartet stayed firmly in the driving seat to win in 5:54.95 with France, to the chagrin of the home crowd, missing out to Spain at the line.
Sinclair said: "We set out to win the repechage and a new focus was to develop the rhythm that we had at training camps but which was lacking in the heat. We felt we did that today and could enjoy the boat speed".
Sir David Tanner, GB Rowing Team Performance Director said: "That was a good performance today and what we would expect of them".
Next up the men's quadruple scull of GraemeThomas, Sam Townsend, Charles Cousins and Peter Lambert kept pulses racing as they were fourth for much of their race before pacing a fabulous final 500m to take the verdict on the line by just under a second over Ukraine, the European silver medallists and defending World Champions, and Canada in third.
The GB crew are the reigning World silver medallists but have been prevented from racing together this season until this week though illness and injury.
"We are not the finished article yet at this regatta", said Thomas. "We have another training day tomorrow and there is more to come but that was a big step. That was huge.
"We had big respect for the other three crews who qualified, we knew that they would go out hard and we just kept our heads and kept our focus in the early part of the race and came through in the final 500m".
Sir David Tanner, GB Rowing Team Performance Director said of the men's quad: "Their second half showed the grit and determination and speed which they are capable of. That will give them confidence to go into the next race and show more of the form that we know they can produce.
Both these races show just how tough the racing is here in the Olympic and Paralympic classes".
Both GB Rowing Team crews have more work to do here. The top eight boats only qualify for Rio from the men's quad and the top 11 from the men's four. Semi-finals for both boat categories are on Thursday.