Apart from the quality of much of the BBC's commentary (especially in the swimming, basketball and anything involving Barry Davies), the most annoying thing about these Olympics is how lack of an initial British sporting success saw the emergence of several proper rubbish articles in the broadsheets about the crisis facing British sport. We're glad to be able to say that with any luck indoor rowing will save the day.Or rather a) some athletes who use the Indoor Rower are doing pretty well and b) we've never seen a bandwagon we haven't wanted to jump on. First off, Britain is still ruling the waves in the sailing, with the possibility of winning seven medals in the nine classes we're represented in. For a while now, Concept 2 has been an official sponsor to the British sailing team, providing machines to all the top athletes. The Indoor Rower has become integrated into the fitness assessments and training regimes of every member of the RYA Youth and Senior sailing squads. This means that over 600 elite sailors are tested on the machine twice a year and their performances logged and benchmarked. One of the most enthusiastic indoor rowers in the sailing team is Ben Ainslie, who has put the disappointment of his first couple of races behind him to look well placed to repeat the gold he won in Sydney. This time Ben is competing in the more physically demanding Finn class and has stepped up his work on the Indoor Rower to prepare himself. You can find a profile of Ben at http://www.therowingcompany.com/rowing/ben_ainslie.php and a more detailed account of his training at http://www.therowingcompany.com/rowing/ben_ainslie_rya.php. In the rowing, we've got a good chance of medalling in four events. The men's coxless four will go into their final confident that, if they row their best race, it will be hard for the Canadians to stop them while, after a disappointing heat, the women's pair of Katherine Grainger and Cath Bishop stepped up a gear to earn a place in the final. In fact, the women's team are doing incredibly well so far. After the breakthrough of the Sydney Olympics, where a silver in the quad became British women's first ever rowing medal, we're well set in three events. In the double, Elise Laverick and Sarah Winckless will be hoping for a podium position, while perhaps the best chance of a top spot out of all the crews is in the women's quad. Rebecca Romero, Frances Houghton, Alison Mowbray and Debbie Flood looked incredibly good in qualifying. Frances is a former World IRC Junior 18 champion, while Debbie could be the first person to come to rowing through indoor rowing to win Olympic gold. A former judo competitor, she attended her first British IRC in 1997 after her coach realised that her training times would place her near the top of the Ranking. She cleaned up that year in the J18 Hwt race and, since then, has never looked back.The times for the finals are:SaturdayWomen's Pair: 7:10 a.m.Women's Double: 7:50 a.m.Men's Four: 8:30 a.m.SundayWomen's Quad: 7:30 a.m. All times are GMT. Or BST, we can never remember which one we're on.