Reality bites.
Absolute chaos has descended upon the United States protectorate of Puerto Rico, hours ago, as media darlings Erin Brooks and Sky Brown have been bumped out of the International Surfing Association’s World Surfing Games thereby losing Olympic qualification.
I think.
The byzantine rules around punching a ticket to the big Games has stifled even adroitest of minds. This much, however, is currently known. Erin Brooks secured her Canadian citizenship weeks ago in hopes of representing the maple leaf at the Cave of Skulls. Brown, who rides for England, was attempting to become history’s first to compete in surfing and skateboarding. Both lost in one of the 40 repechage rounds thereby derailing momentum.
Maybe.
Canada still has Sanoa Olin alive in the draw who might qualify due to ranking ahead of Brooks. England has Glen “Micro” Hall.
Who actually knows.
Things will certainly be made clear once the dust settles but, for now, let’s choose to be sad for Brooks and Brown.
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is it too late for Erin to become french ?
Nothing better than entitled brats don’t getting their own way
For the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, can we have the event at Pipeline? Or Maverick’s?
Micro was the first Aussie to represent Ireland, well ahead of the game(s)
I’m still loving this! The pinnacle of world amateur surfing in a massive bracket and countless heats coming up against the WSL stars and both winning and losing in everyday waves. Plus qualification to Chopes of a ragged mix of very competent surfers and some surfettes. I really hope Chopes is big and good – it’ll be better watching than some CT years then! Bring it on!!
Enough time to represent Lichtenstein?
Don’t forget Monaco, Luxembourg, Kosovo and Montenegro!
Apologize for my idiocy in such matters – but is there any other Olympic sport where a country’s representatives in a particular sport aren’t selected via a process crafted by the country itself? In swimming or track and field, for example, win the US trials and you’re on the team. Why did all these countries cede their slots to the ISA’s process to begin with? Or am I missing something obvious?
Currently more questions than answers
Aaahhhh dear dear Sky Brown, the staunch nationalist & British lioness with a strong passion for cold dirty onshore slop, Yorkshire tea & a Bacon Buttie, although increasingly difficult to find in her home town of Miyazaki (somewhere in Derbyshire I think) or her adopted home of Huntigton Beach (I’m guessing this is in Huntigdonshire which is strange as it’s totally landlocked). Arigato/Peace Out
Well done to the ISA in qualifying some random guy to the Australian team.
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Good job, Mr. Wing, for coming out of nowhere to qualify for the Olympics!
Wing and a prayer this guy
Lets hope he doesn’t switch to China
ur roxy career will be valatiderd buy asavlied by stormy monday…isa ladies, buy..underwear…like underwear? underwkonwm perps at home?.
Code brown in lane 5
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I repeat
CODE BROWN IN LANE 5
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Whoops, make that lane 6
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Until it’s all confirmed I’m just putting a * next to these names
WOMEN QUALIFIERS FROM 2024 ISA WORLD SURFING GAMES
Nadia Erostarbe (Spain)
Sol Aguirre (Peru)
Taina Hinckel (Brazil)
Yolanda Sequeira (Portugal)
Anat Lelior (Israel)
Camilla Kemp (Germany)
Janire Gonzalez-Extabarri (Spain)
Yang Siqi (China) REUTERS
Only one spot left for the women (21 have qualified out of 22 spots). It’s not clear whether this extra spot goes to the women’s team winners or if it will go to the “Universality” place.
22 of 24 are filled and it’s both the 2024 Team Gold spot and the Universality spot which are yet TBD.
Tipping Erin Brooks will get the universality spot. How about that 14 year old from china. Looks like she can actually surf but bloody hell, surfing chopes at that age is even more hard core than potter at 3rd reef pipeline when he was just a grom.
Erin can’t get the spot. Has to be a country with less than 8 Olympians and an application process etc. Yeah, if Chopes is big it could be carnage.
two daughters of corporate men? i.e., Aguirre, Hinkel
Eri Brooke’s was crook
And Sky Brown drowned ?
The Sky is falling Brown
…and Erin up all the Brooks!
Sanoa qualified by winning silver at the Pan Am games in Chili. Erin won silver at 2023 ISA’s. Also the ISA changed the rules so the CT’rs have to stay and “try” or “something” might happen, but probably not.
*in Chile…duh. She won on waves, not in chili, and waves is something they definitely coulda used more of in PR.
Poor wave selection decided Sky’s fate today. She was so close but a full ISA cycle and she’ll be tough to beat. Erin was stymied by 2 days of garbage/no waves to select from. ISA should be banished from the Olympics for where they ran some of the heats on days 3/4/5.
Boo hoo country changers
Sanoa actually lives and surfs in Canada, Erin not so much.
Bummer. Later losers.
This event affects the qualifying atheletes’ seeding in Tahiti, so there’s an incentive to do good beyond just showing up