With just a handful of windsurfing athletes signed to Red Bull it has become a fairly high accolade within our sport to be a team rider for this renowned energy drinks company, a company that seems to be almost everything that is extreme within our world. Sorry guys this is no Boardseeker Babe but we ‘kinda’ think it’s one hell of a giant leap better…

…when we heard that female Russian windsurfing superstar Olya Raskina was signed up, we were keen to find out more. The problem was, we received the action pics and then found ourselves almost speechless.

Read our featured interview with her over the next few pages.

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