Nethra Kumanan Wants To Ride The Waves At Tokyo Olympics

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Nethra Kumanan will be India's first woman sailor at an Olympics. The 23-year-old from Chennai is an engineer and has taken part in the 2014 and 2018 Asian Games but made headlines after winning a bronze medal at the 2020 Sailing World Cup in Miami, USA. Nethra will participate in the Laser Radial Class at Tokyo 2020. She trains at the Canary Islands in Spain. (Video courtesy: SAI)  Follow this story and more: https://www.outlookindia.com/  #Sports #OutlookMagazine #OutlookGroup

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00:03 The understanding, the weather, the environment, the ocean,

00:20 the wind, the water, and there's just

00:23 kind of something incredible about all of that.

00:26 And then on top of that, we get to race as well.

00:29 I was part of the Olympic sport.

00:32 And you put both of those things together,

00:34 and obviously it's different to any other sport.

00:39 I have tried a lot of sports, and I enjoy most sports,

00:42 but nothing as much as sailing.

00:45 I look up to--

00:53 obviously, I think it's quite a normal thing

00:56 to look up to the best in your sport.

00:59 There are two girls, one from the Netherlands

01:01 and one from Denmark, Marit Balmester and Anne-Marie Rindom.

01:06 They're both at the top of the sport right now.

01:08 Marit has the silver from London and the gold from Rio.

01:13 And Anne-Marie has been winning every regatta

01:15 for the past--

01:17 this entire Olympic cycle, which is difficult.

01:21 And sailing to be consistent event after event

01:24 is a very, very unique thing.

01:27 Those are two people I look up to a lot.

01:29 And also two other people, Maria D. from Hungary

01:32 and Vasilija Karahaljou from Greece,

01:35 who I'm lucky enough to be able to train with.

01:38 They're both young girls my age that qualified early.

01:41 I wish everybody a huge good luck

01:50 to do the best in the Olympic Games

01:53 that they can do to have fun, to show everybody

01:56 what we're really made of, and make the country proud.

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