"Trestles Beach, located along the Pacific coast in San Clemente, is one of the world’s premier surfing destinations."
And there, it appears, we have it. Directly after surfing’s much ballyhooed appearance in the Paris Olympiad, just last summer, with our surfing heroes and heroines halfway around the world in Tahiti, attention turned to where the next host, Los Angeles, would stage the “Sport of Kings.”
There were early whispers that Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch, up in Lemoore, would be a fine spot seeing that it could be scheduled though International Surfing Association chief Fernando Aguerre was very much opposed to mechanical waves. Huntington Beach and Lower Trestles then entered the chat, with many thinking Surf City, USA had a leg up due the fact it could host many more spectators than Lowers.
Well, it appears those many were wrong as, today, San Clemente’s jewel is listed as the venue for LA28 on the official Los Angeles Olympic portal.
No additional information is given, other than renaming it “Trestles Beach” and sharing, “Trestles Beach, located along the Pacific coast in San Clemente, is one of the world’s premier surfing destinations. Known for its consistent waves and natural beauty, it will provide a world-class setting for Surfing at the 2028 Games, continuing Southern California’s rich surf culture.
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Surfing doesn’t belong in the Olympics. Can’t help but hope it’s knee high for the duration of the event. No HamSammish.
Olympic crowds will trample the snowy plovers
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Yep! 100% correct, San Clemente is carpet bagging at a San Diego surf spot.
for the average olympic fan Trestles is one of the most difficult to access and least comfortable beaches in So Cal.
I say hold it at The Wedge.
Isn’t that the Southern edge of Cottons in that photo?
Personally, I enjoy going to Trestles Beach. It’s one of my top sports destinations, along with Fenway Stadium and Wrigley Park.
At least it’s not Huntington
Feel sorry for anybody on the 405 that week.
PS
Feel sooty for anybody on the beach that week.
Well, not really, they’ll probably just get what they deserve—a lot of porta-potties…
E-bikes and e-boards to da max.
Any chance for a HB type riot to make it interesting?
405 will be easy. The 5 will be a different story.
Where’s that Dude who was willing to bet the farm it would be in a Tub?
reckoned they would have an 8ft tub built by ’28.
Breaks occasionally. Gotta be a place that breaks consistently. Maybe Kaiser’s, with Bowls as a venue in play if it’s working.
Will go the the mat arguing that Kelly’s pool is the best venue for a California Summer Olympic surf contest. Not good for other contests, but perfect for Olympic competition.
Only better solution to this shit sandwich type problem is for Trump to annex Fiji and hold it at Cloudbreak. If properly pitched I bet he’d do it.
fcuk no- imagine seeing euro kooks struggle for 5’s at the Tub.
at least we might see an Israeli on Brazilian interference on the peak.
The first gstring bikini I ever saw in person was at Lowers. The sight of that small piece of fabric swallowed by a pair of shapely 30 something ass cheeks made a profound impression on a 10 year old boy. At the time, I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at, but I knew it was far more exciting than the waves out front!
As a 1970’s kid, my first macrame bikini sighting, tufts and areolas peeking through, made a similar impression.
if shitler and ICE keep this current trajectory, no fucker will be daft enough to come in to the US will they?
I can see it all now.
A group of middle aged men standing on those fabled cobblestones waving BeachGrit banners, then being chased to the waters edge and hauled away by security guards for flaunting the ‘no alternative advertising’ rule.
Beamed live (and on endless replay) to screens around the globe, viewed by multiple billions of non-surfing sports fans.
Will General Charles Smith lead the charge from the front ?
Or direct the battle from the safety of his home bunker, with whisky glass in one hand and cigar in the other ?
(cue Chas giving a rousing Churchillesque speech)
Surely this will be BeachGrit’s finest hour…
Or at least get a Beach Grit sticker on one of the competitors boards.
How about a (crowd favorite) gofundme to fly a Beach Grit banner https://flyskyads.com/pricing/
I fuck with this idea. That would be rad
Even easier…put a penis on a drone with a flag coming out of the tip
I’ll bring the Africanized Trashcan Killer Bees. We’re gonna swarm that beach.
Surfing should be a winter olympics sport.
Bring back Lodge Grit !
Venue? Which spot could host the short Olympic contest window and have a good chance of good surf and likely good winds in February? Pipeline seems like a good choice ….
Eh, I’d pick Haleiwa personally. Surfable from small to big as.
Yeah unless it’s at chopes
HB would have at least given us the chance at an Olympics riot though.
Bonus✅
Dead set straight up…it should be at Huntington!
Save Trestles already.
I’d way rather see the tub or Trestles over that worthless joke of a wave at HB. And deleting and restarting your account. It’s pretty lame.
I’ve surfed my share of dumb kid and old man contests at South Side Huntington Pier. Best that can be said is never got fully skunked, always seems to be at least a little bit of waves and okay weather.
But yeah, that’s a low bar, has its days but over all weird not good wave. Oceanside harbor would be a better call than HB
I was hoping surfEXPLORE would get involved and find some hidden California gem to exploit. Bummer.
Lets not ever bring that worthless company up again. He should change the name to SurfExploit.
For those that bash Trestles, where would you have chosen? HB Pier? It’s not like there are that many choices.
Cortez Bank.
Love this idea. Restart the first heat until the athletes die of dehydration because it doesn’t break until 40 feet. Then split a gold medal between everyone else and call it a day.
Mavs too.
Well, the Paris Olympics used Teahupoo for the games there so why is it limited to the LA area when its in the US? Seems the world, or actually the entire US, is their oyster.
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, El Salvador. Olympic Triple Crown. Makes sense Barreled, all part of the Mighty United States. Showcase ‘America’ to the world. Even if it’s Polynesia or Latin America.
Make Colonialism Great Again!
They did that only because there was a good chance of France being flat during the event window. And the surf was indeed terrible to non existent.
Thalia Street
Imagining Laguna with Olympic size crowds.
El Porto.
I would watch
El Slammo
Someplace with sharks. Lots and lots of sharks.