Sports丨Feeling the wind beneath their fins

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The fastest sport at the Paris Games has such wild speeds that the athletes say the waves and the wind become muted. Welcome to the Olympic debut of kitesurfing. "What's cool is that it's so silent, flying across the surface and not hitting the water," Daniela Moroz said. Moroz has won six consecutive world championships in the sport, which entails riding a surfboard that's harnessed to a parachute-like sail above and perched on a skinny hydrofoil below. ▲ US Olympic sailing team member Daniela Moroz during a kitesurfing training session in Hyeres, southern France, on April 29. Fans looking for something different at the Olympics might want to check out kitesurfing. But don't blink — it's the fastest sport at the Summer Games. When that foil starts whistling, you know you're going fast, said Moroz, a 23-year-old Californian who is aiming to put the US sailing team on top of the Olympic podium for the first time since 2008. But, when the foil starts humming, she adds, then you're re ………………………………