Australian tax payers rejoice!
Surfing, you are certainly aware, is set to make its grand Olympic debut in just weeks. Tokyo’s Chiba will see Jeremy Flores, Kolohe Andino, Sally Fitzgibbons, Italo Ferreira, maybe Kelly Slater battling it out for gold it what should be “small and funky” waves.
Extremely fun with the world’s eyes on us etc.
After Tokyo, the Games moves to Paris for 2024 and the host nation has already declared surfing will be included, taking place in “France across the Water” i.e. Teahupoo, Tahiti.
Incredible potential.
In 2028, the 5-ring circus travels to Los Angeles and it is impossible to think that surfing will not also be on the menu there too. Malibu? World Surf League CEO’s own Manhattan Beach? Lower Trestles?
Somewhere certainly.
And now, just moments ago, Brisbane, Australia was announced as a shoo-in for the 2032 Olympiad.
Per ESPN, “IOC president Thomas Bach said after an executive board meeting Thursday that Australia’s third-biggest city can be awarded hosting rights as the only candidate proposed at a July 21 meeting in Tokyo.
Bach praised Australia as a sport-loving country with strong support from layers of government in the city of Brisbane, the state of Queensland and federal level.’All this together, I think, made it somehow irresistible,’ the IOC leader said.”
Beautiful Brisbane in the shadow of Surfers Paradise, a stone’s throw from Coolie Kid, and of course we’ll be there, each and every one of us, cheering Joel Parkinson’s children to gold.
Does schoolies happen in July?
A decade-plus of Olympic surfing with no end in sight.
I really hope schoolies and the Olympics collide.
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Maintain the Rage ! … comrade Wibble
This site needs Ben back. And more LongTom. Current commenter crew stale af
Does this mean starky and ziff get there slater pool built for free by the labor state government and can build 4000 townhouses on swampland that can than sell?
I doubt there will even be a WSL 12 months from now. Surprised that Derek and Chas didn’t write an article about the WSL not getting the pipe permit but Vans did. It’s a sinking ship and it’s just a matter of what the ‘new’ tour will look like next year with new owners.
It would be lovely to see the international Olympic athletes arrive by boat , greeted by Border Force and Jonny Howard ( or his current reincarnation ) and be told to go home , do not pass go , do not collect $200 and fuck off to the back of the immigration line ….and then realize that these people were not terrorists and represented no threat to Australian Society …..because it was already rotting from cancer from within ….?
Well it is for 2032 , so hopefully the borders will reopen for international students and backpackers ,so that there will be enough slave labour , to pick the fruit , clean the toilets and serve the tables for Olympians and the Punters ……?
Surely we can enslave other segments of society in the meantime.
My wife , A German medical specialist , cannot work as a medical specialist in Australia , but has the right to work in the Lucky Country picking fruit , cleaning toilets and serving tables or riding an UBER BIKE …… during a period where the nation is screaming for medical specialists in regional Australia …… GO FIGURE ?
Makes you want to SCREAM eh Bicko!
Yes ….. I only lost , the last 30 years , of my life , surfing 2 hours a day on the stretch between Ulladulla and Werri Beach , while contributing a much needed Gynecologist / Obstetrician to the local community …. so sad , too bad …Anyway , wind is up today from the NW in the Baltic so out there in the onshore dribble tomorrow so as the songs says if you can’t surf the one you want surf the one your with ….
Hope you get some fun waves and have a great day at the beach!
Thanks champ …. Looking forward to not wearing booties , gloves and a hood for the first time since October In Denmark .
Bit harsh
I met my Brazzo GF at the volleyball, many sexy memories
fuck yeah i had the time of my life at olympics !!!
We need Roy and HG to commentate on the surfing. http://www.youtube.com/watc…
Racist
They already forgot how bad the Commonwealth Games was for GC businesses. They kept telling everyone how bad the traffic was going to be safe to catch public transport. Instead no one came to watch.
It would be so good if they shrugged off the Superbank and the half-dozen wave pools the state will probably have by then, and instead held the Olympics at Brisbane’s true heart of surfing – on the mud banks in the wake of the Stradbroke Ferry.
If surfing becomes any more wholesome and acceptable which activity are you going to rebelliously take up to replace it?
I’m thinking either vaping or crypto
Fuck, surely there is a Vape coin!?
That’s exactly what the world needs!
The only way to escape this dystopian surfing future is possibly a happy death …..
I am just not sure whose death ….. yet ?
Nat Young. All two of them.
Sounds like a job for the Young Doctors …. a cast member once gave me grief at Newport Peak even though I was 16 and had paddled out on my own when no one else was out …
Well ,there’s the WDWC* and by 2032 there should be an opening for the Witty and Sarcastic Commenting Championship.
*World Donkey Wanking Championship
Fuck, can you compete in two seperate fields in the one olympics? We’ve qualified for both. May the best wanker win!
Yeppoon is the obvious venue.
Only Queensland would put its hand up for an event like the Olympics in this day and age . Dumbass
Is that Mick Hucknall in the front?
Chris Lilly character , google chris Lilly surf gang maybe, funny shit
His “gay style” pro skateboarder is another one worth watching and one for the Hawaiians is Jonah from Tonga, all pretty much banned from regular tv due to today’s woke new world
Yep Chris Lilly is cancelled both officially (Nitflux) and unofficially (ABC)
Mucca mad boys are all fruity poofs
Fennel heads hellmen for life !
Schoolies is a state of mind
If it’s flat, they’re gonna hold it in the new wave tank they just finished in Japan.
I think that’s the way Fernando and Dirk had it planned all along.
Superbank in July.. hmm possibility of pumping waves. If Chopes goes nuts it’ll be pretty hard to top that for spectacle.
No Schoolies in July Chas, that celebration of boganism doesn’t kick off until around October.
It’s Torquay actually.
Like yeah,I was world champ.
But primarily, I was a mucca mad boy.
Muc…hard.
Why does that fat girl in the front of that group not have a top on?