PARIS 2024: Ewing, Wright win first Olympic heats

PARIS 2024: Ewing, Wright win first Olympic heats

Ethan Ewing has shown no fear on his return to the same waves that broke his back last year, qualifying for the third round of Olympic surfing. The Queenslander fractured two vertebrae in 2023 at the feared Teahupo’o break in Tahiti, which as part of French...
PARIS 2024: Ewing through to Round 3, Robinson pipped

PARIS 2024: Ewing through to Round 3, Robinson pipped

Ethan Ewing has returned to the same wave where he broke his back last year to qualify for the third round of Olympic surfing. The Queenslander fractured two vertebrae in 2023 at the feared Teahupo’o break in Tahiti, which as part of French Polynesia is hosting...
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...