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In September 2015, surfing was included in a shortlist along with baseball, softball, karate, skateboarding, and sport climbing to be considered for inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics. [1] In June 2016, the executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that they would support the proposal to include all of the ...
The surfing competition was staged in Teahupo'o, Tahiti, in the French overseas collectivity of French Polynesia in the southern Pacific. The decision was made to hold the surfing competition in the French territory instead of continental Europe because of the famous massive waves on the island suitable for the surfing competitions. [1]
In 2018, the International Surfing Association (ISA) announced that surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics would take place in the ocean, and not in an artificial wave pool. [4] The contest site for the 2020 Games was announced to be Tsurigasaki Beach located about 40 miles (64 km) outside of Tokyo in Ichinomiya, Chiba. [5]
Miles away from the site of the 2024 Paris Summer Games, Olympic surfers are riding one of the deadliest waves in the world in Teahupo’o, which translates to “the place of skulls.”
Surfing made its Olympics debut at the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games in 2021, but this year, the sport is already making waves with a first-of-its-kind floating Olympic Village, where the surfers ...
See where Olympic surfing athletes are living in Tahiti during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, including the cruise ship and Team USA's on-shore villa.
2023 ISA World Surfing Games (continental qualification for Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania) – The highest-ranked eligible male and female surfer from Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania will be entitled to a spot for the Olympics; otherwise, it will be reallocated to the next highest-ranked surfer on the continent. The highest-ranked athlete ...
There, in the waters of the volcanic island that will host next year's Olympic surfing events, surfer Kauli Vaast waits. The giant waves form in the storm belts of the Southern Ocean, off ...