A super team in the making!
The Winter Olympics commence today in PyeongChang, Korea. It will be a time of great cheer and veiled jingoism. I will catch as many events as I can, including but not limited to biathlon, curling, the 70m long jump, the 90m long jump and ice dancing.
Eighteen months from now, the Summer Olympics will kick off in nearby Tokyo, Japan. The 2020 Games will mark surfing’s debut and the host nation is the early favorite to bring home the gold. The Japan Times reports:
Twenty-year-old surfer Kanoa Igarashi, a dual citizen of Japan and the United States, has been named to the Japan national team for the first time, the Nippon Surfing Association said Tuesday.
Along with 55 other men, including 2015 U.S. Open of Surfing winner Hiroto Ohara, and 26 women, Igarashi will represent Japan in surfing events in the 2018 season as he seeks a place in the team at the 2020 Tokyo Games when the sport makes its Olympic debut.
Kanoa Igarashi and Hiroto Ohara have both won the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, conditions that likely mirror the Japanese beach breaks. Igarashi and Ohara also have a combined height of 2m and will be able to do many acrobatic maneuvers inside the Slater-Fincham barrel if the Olympic committee decides to hold the event at a wave tank.
I think the combo may well be unbeatable, easy favorites for gold and silver. I think Brazil will take bronze.
Is this a surprise?
Igarashi wears a competitors lycra at OK Currall Ranch… ops!… sorry… KS Wave Ranch with the japanese flag on shoulders.
But, just in case… Go see the video from Ítalo at Baía Formosa, Brasil, his backyard…
Bronze my ass!
I was surprised when he was invited ( rated 20 something at the time of the event ) instead of much higher seeded surfers ,but when I saw the photo of him from the pool wearing the pink lycra with the 🇯🇵 on the sleeve , knowing that officials from the Japanese and French Olympic committees ,were also invited ,in an attempt to sell them the WSL owned pool concept , then it all made sense.
I immediately catched that thing too James!
A little detail, but too obvious when the others little details came out!
🙂
Quirky fact, raced biathlon for years as a kid, weird sport, yet probably more profitable than surfing
I believe they will also do well in the cove if the ISA choose pond types. But how can Brazil not win?
Chas, I don’t want to place you under any undue pressure, however is it possible to get an ETA on the laugh x 4 story you promised to deliver? It’s just that my psychologist says I really need this as part of my treatment plan. I can give you her contact details if you would like to discuss with her.
As their only hope of defeating this Japanese Juggernaut™, Team ‘Merica will send Mikey C., the Lilliputian dynamo armed with Parzival’s object of desire, to Tokyo.
If the combined height of Kanoa and Hiroto is 2m, then I calculate Keanu Asing’s height to be 63 centimeters.
Can we be sure that Jordy Smith isn’t actually just the three of them stacked together in some acrobatic pose?
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It’s impossible to pile shit that high!
Never forget Keanu has won more CT events then Kolohe !
And also, 9/11
11th September or the 9th November ?
Kanoa hocks a gob in the eye of ‘Murica!!!
Will Orange Mussolini remember his fond comments about internment camps, and send the entire Igarashi family to a high-walled Central Valley gulag, condemned to long lonely years of surfing waves no more real than the president’s “hair”? This could get interesting …
La Migra is sweeping up the Manzanar shantys now. gonna be a cold spring up there.
Seems odd to run the 2020 games in 2019. Is this also permit related?
The whole country of Brazil will be awarded the individual bronze! Remember when this happens that Chas predicted it first!
Well they do liked to get tanned so bronze seems terribly appropriate except for Devid Silva .However Silver is for Argentina(Ag on the periodic table ) .
Then by your logic James gold will come to the Gold Coast? I like your sly Aussie alchemy …
Well the chemical symbol of gold being Au,this could be a good sign for the southern cross nation or RedBull .
Austria surely
Or the Gold to Kolohe Andino for the men, and to Courtney, Lakey or Sage for the women, all who hail from the Golden State… Way better than only a gold coast.
I’ll be putting a fifty on Mr Tumnus to take it for Narnia.
Ok ok I’m biting. WhoTF is Tumnus etc it this scenario you guys have been bandying about?
i keep thinking mr. tumnus is felipe. (tumnus was a character in the english christian fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. sort of a half-human half goat creature with a goatee, as i recall)
KVF started it I think, and I just ran with it. Which WCT surfer do you think he looks like?
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Ha, that’s obviously a welsh version of Felipe Toledo, or perhaps an Appalachian Kolehe Andino.
Or even a down on his luck Dusty Payne.
its Khloe
Ha, all joking aside, kolohe seems like a pretty cool dude – Felipe too.
Igarashi represents whom now when competing “On Tour?”
The French mag Surf Session implied yesterday in an article on the same subject that he would surf this year on the WSL tour for Japan 🇯🇵 as he did in the pool between Trestles and Peniche last year.
I like that whom right there, all grammatical and shit
Can a country be a whom? Regardless, it is a pretty word.
Witch country?
The wicked witch from the west is from OZ .
whom stands in place of him her or them, so yep, “them farinaars” can be whomed
Come on now, we’re all whoman beings.
sorry but no, grammatical would have been which not whom.
A truly correct grammarian would use ‘da kine.’
“Whom” stands in for “them” stands in for “the Japanese.” So “he surfs for them.” So “he surfs for the Japanese.” If those are grammatical sentences, so is the original sentence in question. It’s fine!
“For which (country) does he surf?” Is also grammatically (or rather syntactically, but let’s leave that alone) correct. Perfectly fine. But a different sentence entirely.
but one can’t say “he surfs for them japanese.”
Japan is a country, japanese are plural citizens of that country.
so “for whom does he surf? the japanese?” would also be wrong.
Nope. Ask a question with whom in it. If the answer works with “them” then you’ve used whom correctly..
For whom does he surf? He surfs for them.
The them, of course, is always a pronoun standing in for some plural noun. He surfs for them. He surfs for the Japanese. For whom does he surf? For them. For the Japanese. The OP broke no “rules of grammar.”
Chas has a Master’s in linguistics, so I’m sure he’s read the touchstone article pasted below. Me I just dipped a toe or so into advanced study of the part of linguistics that’s about sentence rhetoric. Give it a quick skim and you’ll understand “grammar” better than 99% of the people in the planet!
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“youse” Vs “y’all”…compare and contrast.
Both are just colloquialisms, almost always deployed in perfect acceptable standard English syntax. When old ladies say these are “bad grammar,” what they mean is that people at the country club use different words so you therefore must be an idiot and/or dirtbag.
i’d be like “fuck all y’all”
‘Off ya’s fuck’ is often handy round these parts.
has a nice ring
Youse can all go get fucked
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