With a borrowed boat and the wind in her sails, Nethra Kumanan crafts sailing history Nethra Kumanan is the first Indian to earn a direct entry into the Olympics as well as the first female sailor from the country to do so. Bogee Toth/sailingacademygc During a team briefing days ahead of the Asian Olympic qualifiers, Indian sailing coach Tomasz Januszewski learnt that the country's brightest Olympic qualifying hope would be at sea with a slightly battered boat. Nethra Kumanan's craft, much like the rest of the Indian sailors' boats, had been docked at the Abu Dhabi port storage since the As...