Youthful energy.
It is official. After making its 2020 Olympic debut at Tokyo, surfing (along with skateboarding and rock climbing), will be part of the 2028 Los Angeles Games and has been approved on Paris 2024’s “additional” list.
With Brisbane set to host the 2032 sporting festival, it is likely that professional surfers will be winning gold, silver and bronze for the decade to come.
Exciting.
Regarding Los Angeles, Casey Wasserman, chairman of the L.A. organizing committee, said, “The LA28 Games have always been about bringing more freshness, youthful energy and creativity into the Olympic and Paralympic movement.”
Fernando Aguerre, president of the surfing’s international federation, added, “We have always known that surfing was a natural fit for LA28. As the official sport of California, surfing is action, youth and energy combined.”
Wonderful.
Now, where do you think the surfing will be staged?
Lower Trestles in beautiful San Clemente?
Iconic Malibu a pleasant drive north?
Surf City, USA Huntington Beach?
I’d imagine knives are being sharpened in the various city halls.
I’d imagine civil war is nigh.
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So they made him come in to change rashie
Cunningham could do a million insurance ads with that voice.
Ibelli before the ice melted https://media3.giphy.com/me…
Well she certainly is a beauty
Looks like a bigger version of my old 32’er
I’d even have a flu jab to fly over and crew on her
If she’s yours, that is…
Framed houses with guys like Ronnie to pay my way through college, hate to see death and guys like him taught me to stay out of trouble
Oh man, WSL numbers gunna explode after the lumpics
stupid question, hawaii by default…
Will the WSL still be around in 6 years time to see this happen
Well, it’s not being run as a business in the normal sense because if it were then Dork would have pulled the pin on it or flogged it off ages ago.
So you have to assume it’s either being run as a tax write off against his overall operations or that it’s his wife’s plaything. A dalliance for her – like a shopping addiction or charity work.
Anyway, I’m going to assume it’ll still be there coz of any of the reasons above and they can afford to keep it going.
But who really knows with these super rich cunts ?
Prolly come here tomorrow and find Chas has written an article claiming The Peoples Victory and woozl is no more…. that wouldn’t surprise me either.
French olympics should be fun.
Sumer.
Same venue as the coveted Pip Masters!!
Lemoore is my dark horse pick
Oooooft.
Ugh, probably more right than I’d like to think.
Run it at the wedge harhar
If the French hold it in death defying Tahitian barrels it’ll subsequently be hugely confusing for sports general viewing public’s understanding of what surfing actually is if the U.S.A. then hold the next one at some shitty little L.A. adjacent beachbreak.
They could do as the French to intend and hold it off the mainland, anywhere that the U.S. ‘owns’ like Hawaii or Puerto Rico etc.
Or probably better for all concerned (especially the bones of the majority of women competitors, plus Pip and Lucky Mess) if the French hold it in continental France instead of Teahupo’o…
Connest will be in july, surely? Is it rincon or malibu that breaks in summer?
That would be Malibu but it’s way too fucking fickle for a contest. Rincon only breaks on a west-northwest swell or really big north.
“General viewing public” hahaha that made me laugh. Thanks Beef!
You’re most welcome (Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr.) Feel Good.
I’m very pleased to be viewing your pleasantly positive reply, and know I was able to enable you with a general sense of merriment and mirth on this public forum…
If only Ronnie G was around to handle security at HB
Le Mure…
Side-note but kinda LA related… Credit to Poopies cause being in the featured photo (along with his nickname!) in this Hollywood Reporter article is kinda nuts:
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The mistake is having surfing in the Olympics in the first place. Its an elitist sport available only to those who live on the coast or in somewhat close proximity. Not to mention the subjectivity of the sport in general, especially the judging, makes it a poor fit.
Better put a line through the horse racing and sailing.
Well, those are elitist but they are also objective and easy to determine a winner. Plus you can ride horses and sail just about anywhere, just need a horse and water.
There is no doubt cuntardery will abound.
Wild promises will be made by Mayors in darkened boardrooms.
Sly furtive nods and even quicker handshakes will be given and received by ISA intermediaries.
Meanwhile the sidelined woozl will plump and preen itself as if it’s the only game in town.
A marvellous shitshow.
I trust them to make the wrong decision and hold it at a tub.
Or even worse, El Porto