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Teenaged sailor sets sights on Olympics

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Chennai-based Rohini Rau will leave this weekend for the Zoom 8 World Sailing Championships in the Netherlands from July 31 to August 6.

The Girls Asian Sailing Champion has many firsts to her credit and now she hopes to work towards the Asian Games in 2006 and the Olympics in 2008.

Partnered by Pallavi Naik of Goa, the two were the first girls to win gold for India at an international event - the Asian Sailing Championships in January this year.

Now she's on her way to the Zoom 8 World Championships where she'll be the first Indian girl sailor to handle a Zoom 8.

Rohini has now got a seat, on the sports quota, to study medicine. And her family hopes it will be in Chennai so she can pursue her dream of making it to the 2006 Asian Games and then the Olympics in 2008.

There's been encouragement for the promising sailor from the Tamil Nadu Government's Future Champions Programme and if past records are anything to go by, then future sailing crowns are surely hers.
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