PARIS 2024: Big conditions predicted for start of surfing competition

PARIS 2024: Big conditions predicted for start of surfing competition

The surf is building in Tahiti ahead of the Paris 2024 competition, which is due to begin on Saturday 27 July. And when Teahupo’o starts to hint at what it is capable of, it brings a couple of other things to the famous break: fear and excitement.   “You’ve...
PARIS 2024: Key Olympic surfing stats

PARIS 2024: Key Olympic surfing stats

15,700 – The approximate distance in kilometres between Paris and Tahiti, the largest distance between events at a single Olympic Games.2021 – Surfing made its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, held in 2021.1964 – The year the first world surfing...
PARIS 2024: Surfing preview

PARIS 2024: Surfing preview

Surfing is one of the newer Olympic sports, having made its debut at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Australia qualified with a full team of four, Tyler Wright, Molly Picklum, Jack Robinson and Ethan Ewing, representing the Surfing Women’s Open and Surfing Men’s Open...
“Come to the Edge” with our Olympic surfing team in new doco

“Come to the Edge” with our Olympic surfing team in new doco

“You could get the best wave of your life, or die.” That’s how surfers describe Teahupoo in Tahiti. Now you too can experience the thrill and terror of this Olympic surfing venue in “Come to The Edge”.”Come to the Edge” is a...
Sierra Kerr awarded wildcard spot into the Fiji Pro

Sierra Kerr awarded wildcard spot into the Fiji Pro

Sierra Kerr (AUS) and Erin Brooks (CAN) have been awarded the wildcard spots into this year’s Fiji Pro, Stop 9 on the World Surf League (WSL) 2024 Championship Tour (CT). The prodigious talents will join 11-time World Champion Kelly Slater (USA) and the winner of the...