“Paris will be alive. I’ll be here covering surfing from the actual site of the Paris 2024 Olympics as opposed to Tahiti."
A common, and fair, criticism of this news site is that principal reporter Chas Smith rarely ventures beyond his southern Californian neighbourhood.
In the interests of a fair and accurate account of Paris 2024’s surfing component, Chas Smith has rented an apartment in the Marais there and, today, in his first instalment reports on the hate, boredom and sadness felt by all surfers compelled to fly to Tahiti for Paris 2024 and not the host city itself.
“Paris will be alive. I’ll be here covering surfing from the actual site of the Olympics as opposed to Tahiti,” says Smith. “But, maybe there’s a silver lining. Maybe for a Filipe Toledo could wander the streets imagining the Belle Epoque? That he was there himself, sitting at a corner bistro. Maybe Filipe Toledo could write some poetry, like Moliere. Maybe he could learn to speak French really good. Maybe he could learn to speak French really good.”
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The Marais is useless other than the falafel. I guess if you like to tote your toy dog around in a handbag it’s okay.
We did it last August, surfed Biarritz and San Sebastian. I’d go back in a heartbeat
While in France, Filipe should reach out to Justine DuPont on how to get a spine and tackle waves of consequence.
She could man him up!
Colin Jost is in Tahiti, Chas is in Paris, Pip is in Tahiti wishing he was in France. Make Olympic Surfing make sense…
Chas: I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my dog go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
Kidnapper: Good Luck
no ballet school in Tahiti huh? Maybe wife has skateboarders in the Olympics. .
Copenhagen next for the Royal Danish! Kid and I actually going to miss the skate but I’ll cover it from Denmark.
the irony of a transplant Oregonian Californian in Paris with a shaved Mexican poodle covering surfing in Tahiti.
what’s next, Chas eating a hot dog and drinking a Steinlager at the local bistro?
can Chas report the olympics in the voice of Inspector Clouseau?
Only if Derek does it as Cato.
Derek jumping out of freezer to attack Chas.
“where are you my little yellow friend?”
brilliant!
lovin the Charlie Brown penis tatt. Have No Shame !
Get on the meth and stab fuckers
STAB
With that faux le tennis toss…Chihuahua in arms and the background of Aviara fountain…I dare say you still in smack dab CBad.
I wonder if Chas realizes he could be surfing in Biarritz in just over 4 hours if he catches a train at Montparnasse station.
the Iranian pickpockets might slow him down a little
Walking fast like a New Yorker with an attitude solves that problem. BUT with his pretty boy looks he is a target.
No.
His trips seem to be carefully planned so that surfing isn’t an option.
Hard to argue with as I’ve surfed about 10 days this year and 2 maybe 3 have been decent days will small crowds
Followed by fresh oysters and vin blanc!
Chas Smith covered the entire ASP European Tour leg for Surfer from a barber shop 4 miles inland, so distance to the event has never been a vulnerability of his surf journalism.
Makes you wonder…. such a Brilliant war correspondent, was he also reporting “remotely”????
Pro surfing: one of the few sports where the people paid to cover it can openly not cover it while still appearing to be covering it.
Surf-dodger Chas strikes again!
In Paris covering the Tahiti event instead of in, well, you know… Tahiti.
If he were there with great surf and 80 degree water, he may actually be expected to surf. 😆
I can comment on stab for free again.
Whos coming?
Never have and never been there.
No reason for me to go there now.
BG til death !
I just read about a guy who left his keys under a rock and when he got back to his car all his shit was gone, and he cldnt two factor his accounts and he was fuked.
What should i comment?
Hmmm, a tricky one ….perhaps suggest a gofundme coz that’s what all losers seem to do ? That oughta get them going.
That was quite informative. I now have two decoy phones and wallets in my car. Also, an old credit card front-and-centre in my actual wallet, which I keep forgetting about and getting declined.
Didn’t the Inertia post a “How To” about surfing stashing keys?
“Sucks to be you?”
Caveira and James B.
Chas is closer to the Olympics than Filly is to taking off at Teh’ah’oh’poh’o