Insider declares Huntington Beach current favorite to host Los Angeles ’28 Olympic surfing!

Surf City, USA!

The surfing component of the ’28 Olympics was always going to be, and let’s just be very frank and to the point, a bummer. Host city Los Angeles, while wonderful, does not possess an overseas collectivity in the South Pacific and, thus, was going to have to send international heroes and heroines out in mediocre waves. While a few dreamers floated Kelly Slater’s magical Surf Ranch, three hours north, as a possible site, the International Surfing Association’s Fernando Aguerre has been decidedly anti-tub.

And so Lower Trestles and Huntington Beach emerged as favorites, both regularly hosting professional surfing events. But which of the two will win? An insider very close to the lever of Olympic surfing power has shared Huntington Beach is the current favorite.

The “challenge for Trestles,” the source shared, “is the Olympic ‘village,’ or mini tent city headquarters that goes up for two months and would take up limited space in the parking lot at the state park.” Huntington Beach, of course, has ample space for a tent city headquarters, anti-LGBTQ parade route and stage for a NOFX and Friends concert series.

Surf City, USA.

But do you imagine that the non-surfing Olympic fan, having experienced the glories of Teahupo’o during the ’24 Games, will thrill just as much for the Huntington Hop or will he/she claw at eyeballs whilst quickly changing the channel to the lawn dart event?

Also, will there be one of Huntington Beach’s famed surf-induced riots?

Much to ponder.