With the likes of Nethra and Vishnu giving it their all to bring India an Olympic medal in Tokyo, the Indian sailors have a bright future.
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Sailing is not one of the well-known sports in India but the Indian sailors at the Tokyo Olympics have given hope to the diverse land of cultures. Our nation is still adapting to sports like Fencing, Swimming and Sailing making slight progress each year. With the likes of Nethra Kumanan and Vishnu Sarvanan giving their all to win India an Olympics medal in Tokyo, a bright future for Indian sailors is around the corner.
On Day 4 of the Summer Games in Tokyo, Nethra battled in Race 6 of the women’s laser radial one-person dinghy. Meanwhile, Sarvanan raced in the 5th round of the men’s laser one-person dinghy. With good finishes in the initial rounds, both of them were expected to up the ante and deliver a strong all-around result. However, the success streak for Nethra came crashing down in the 4th, 5th and 6th race where she finished in the 31-40 positions bracket.
She was off to a flyer in the 2nd and 3rd round bagging the 16th and 15th positions respectively. Why do we call it a success streak? Because Indian sailors have failed to deliver at the World stage and have been prone to last rank brackets. Being in the top 20 in itself is an achievement for these young stars.
The 23-year-old Kumanan looked out of form in her 6th race. She fell to 38th position and was not able to recover from there. She did go to 34th at one stage but came down soon enough. With 4 races left, we’ll have to wait and see if she is able to pull off a miraculous performance to recover from these ranks.
On the other hand, Vishnu Sarvanan has been fairly consistent with his performance. In the initial round he finished 14th. The Round 2 race was postponed. He still managed to be in the top 25 bracket achieving 20th, 24th, 23d and now 22nd positive in the respective races.
In his 5th race, the 22-year-old Sarvanan made a comeback from 29th position to 22nd and then maintaining the rank throughout. He still has 5 races to go to buck up and achieve his dream of winning an Olympics medal for India in Sailing.
