“We have ways of planning that now and it will allow women to also surf at Teahupo’o.”
The International Olympic Committee has confirmed the selection of surfing, and breakdancing, for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
And it’s gonna be Teahupoo for the surfing, naturally, ’cause France conquered this gorgeous lil corner of the Pacific a lil over a 150 years ago thus enabling an island fifteen-thousand clicks from Paris to serve springy, puffy and buttery croissants.
“The conditions at Teahupo’o offer an amazing performance wave that will excite athletes and captivate fans. Elite surfers – men and women – compete here regularly and are eager to compete for Olympic glory at Teahupo’o. With 22 men and 22 women surfers, we are happy to reaffirm our total commitment to gender equality and fair sport,” said the International Surfing Association’s Fernando Aguerre. “We salute the five candidatures (Hossegor etc), which were all excellent and well-known surf destinations, but Tahiti was truly exceptional in offering our athletes, and our sport, spectacular conditions for optimal competitions.”
Teahupoo was taken off the women’s calendar in 2007 ’cause it was deemed too dangerous.
And, now?
“We can put the women on at a time of the day when the waves are less powerful,” the president of Tahiti’s surfing federation, Lionel Teihotu explained to AFP. “We have ways of planning that now and it will allow women to also surf at Teahupo’o.”
The waves at Teahupoo will be a dramatic contrast to Chiba’s brave little beachbreak runners expected for Tokyo in 2021.
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Toledo will win Break Dancing Gold.
italo doing the beatbox…
I am going to enjoy seeing the hard core feminists say absolutely nothing about this hard core male patriarchy move of making the women surf smaller waves
I guess the women’s final is going to be Plessy v. Ferguson, huh?
Do you think two weeks later they will run the paralympics out there too?
Its entirely realistic that the same girl could win both events!
I could make a Felipe comment here but I like Pip a lot and see that incident as a one off and not indictive of his overall ability in waves of consequence.
2024 goals… Marry my Greek Girlfriend now, work on citizenship and a spot in the National team.
Ah…Greek girls…you never have to worry about them getting knocked up.
Ha! A mate of mine was doing some tuning work on a very nice looking Greek lass at a nightclub in The Shire one fine evening. Things were going well for him. Every time she went back to her group of friends, or to get a drink, the boys would start giving him advice on how to negotiate the backdoor.
To the point where when they got back to his place, he had accepted that was the way it was. He asked if she would like some rearing. She replied indignantly:
“What do you think I am? Some sort of pervert?”
HAHAHA!!!!
The Olympics?? haha, the vast majority of watchers will probably be the ‘un-stoked’, ‘non-surfers’. They’ll probably watch surfing like I watch the giant slalom or ski jumping.
I watch it for a few days–and then I’m over it until the next Olympics four years later.
But you become an expert in whatever sport you are watching. I mean, I know nothing about figure skating, but I could, within acceptable variations, guess the scores the judges would hand out.
Given we ‘experts’ can’t even get close to consistency with the surf judges, what chance has the average punter got?
Niccollo appears to be doing both.
Huh?
Haha, surf breakdancing winner hands down!
It’s amazing that he survived that.
Niccollo appears to be doing both.
What’s that?
Niccollo appears to be doing both.
Sorry?
Niccollo appears to be doing both.
Gotcha
Not sure what happened there! Or there. Or there.
It appears he was doing both.
I just thought it was so profound that it needed to be said four times. Might say it again later.
So it appears.
You should form a consortium with Party Pete.
If it’s big.. this will break the Olympics. Running races don’t really stack up as a viewing highlight up against 12ft spitting Teahupoo. The slams alone would ruin the viability of poor old darts for example.
The chicks won’t go out at big honalua, they gonna wake board the ski?
There is no fucking way they are surfing Chopes. We have been over this many times in these comments. The performance difference is so vast that the chicks become almost unwatchable if they are next to the men.
Will be some sick breakdancing moves from the competitors from Estonia, Mongolia and Qatar as they’re flung up and over the lip of the first set they attempt to scrape in to.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…