Kitchen's father Rex Sellers competed in sailing at four Olympics and he gained a gold and a silver medal before she was born in 1989.
[2] Kitchen switched to kitefoiling, a sport where the rider controls a large kite and the surboard can rise out of the water on a hydrofoil.
The sport is not without risks and apart from a crash helmet the riders are obliged to wear an impact vest and to carry a hooked knife.
[2] A knee injury like this can demand the end of a career or invasive surgery; Kitchen opted for neither but decided to use physiotherapy to recover.
By this time the chosen continental competitors included not only Kitchen but Fawn Jantawan from Thailand, Catalina Turienzo from Argentina, the Canadian Emily Claire Bugeja, Julie Paturau from Mauritius and the Spaniard Gisela Pulido.