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Why wind surfer Katya Coelho’s challenge is to build muscle weight

Katya Coelho grapples with a unique physics phenomenon – if she’s too light, she can’t go fast in her sport. The 23-year-old is constantly trying to build muscle and get heavier. “There’s no motor pulling you, you have to move with strong winds and waves which needs you to be heavy,” says India’s Asian Games-bound female wind-surfer in the Olympic sailing category of IQFOil. “There’s an enormous fin (hydro foil) under the boat which needs balancing. If you don’t have adequate body weight, it’s difficult.” Katya Coelho at the gym. (Special arrangement) While most Olympic sports contested indoors see athletes struggle to cut weight so that match-ups are fair, it doesn’t get more outdoorsy than wind-surfing where competitors are both aided by but mostly battling wind gusts and choppy wave...