Paris Olympics 2024, Women's Surfing: The Perfect Wave

It was Caroline Marks (USA) who had the Gold Medal winning ride in the unique waves off the coast of Tahiti.  It was the pile of skulls at Teahupo'o provided the perfect and consistantly similar waves for these Olympics.  They almost seemed man made in their uniformity.  The Olympics next move to the United States in Los Angles.  I guess we will be looking at some California surfing, or perhaps they will take a page out of the French playbook and go to Hawaii for the surfing competition.

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"The Perfect Wave PO24-73" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Surfing: Turning Out Gold

Not only is Kauli Vaast and French citizen, he is a resident of Tahiti, the very beach where the Olympic surfing events were held.  It may be the local knowledge, or it may be a life surrounded by the sea, but whatever it was it gave him the ability to win Gold in Men's Surfing.  At this point he is turning out of the wave after his gold medal winning ride.

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"Turning Out Gold PO24-72" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Surfing Qualifying: Dropping In

I was wondering how Paris would be able to stage a surfing event for these Summer Olympics.  I don't know why I didn't think of Tahiti.  Despite being literally on the other side of the world, it was the perfect place to host the surfing events.  During Monday's qualifying rounds Gabriel Medina (Brazil) had a near perfect ride going so far as to come out of the curl of the wave holding up ten fingers in an appeal for a perfect score of 10.  He didn't get it.  But it was roughly a 9.7, not too bad.  Unfortunately for the Brazilian, the points won't carry over to his bid for a Gold Medal.

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"Dropping In PO24-29" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Men's Surfing: Shooting the Curl

I'm not really sure if this is still what this move is called, but it fits just the same.  The surfer will catch the start of the breaking wave and ride down through the curl of the waves as it crashes over their head.  With luck or skill, they will pop out the end of the curl for an exciting move on the waves.  I was wondering how the surfing was going to be held in Paris, but it isn't.  The Olympic surfers are all down in the rather beautiful French Polynesia on the island of Tahiti.  John John Florence (Team USA) had such a great ride that he is qualified into the the semi's without having to surf the quarterfinals.

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"Shooting the Curl PO24-9" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Wollongong 2022, Mixed Relay: Out of Sync

I can't remember ever seeing Tahiti or any of the other South Pacific island nations at the Worlds before, but then Australia is certainly a lot closer than Europe on the Americas.  So it was a treat to see Tekau Hapairai, Kylie Crawford, and Elodi Touffet (Tahiti) out on course after the male members of their team had finished their lap of the Mixed Team Relay.  This is only the third year of this event which replaced the team time trials of years past.  It makes more sense to have teams compete under their national flag then as their trade teams as it was in years past.  With no disrespect to the teams efforts, they were not quite the well oiled machine of some of the big name European teams, but the joy they felt to be competing at the worlds was unmistakable.  

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