The 2020 Tokyo Games are set to be a historic edition of the oldest active sporting tournament on the planet. For starters, they will be held in 2021, but more importantly, it will also be the first Olympics in history in which surfing will be included as an event. It only took about 2,800 years but at long last, it has made the cut, and in July of this year we’ll get to watch the world’s best take a break from the relentless Championship Tour schedule to compete for the first-ever Gold Medal of surfing.
Brazil has taken the surfing world by storm in recent years, with names like Gabriel Medina, Italo Ferreira, Filipe Toledo and Tatiana Weston-Webb becoming consistent presences in the upper echelons of the world rankings. In many ways they have revolutionised professional surfing, particularly on the men’s side of things, with aerial manoeuvres which were barely …
Tokyo 2020 Surfing Preview – Team Australia The 2020 Games will soon get underway, roughly a year after they were initially scheduled, and for the first time the best surfers in the world will get the chance to earn a Gold Medal for their country. With a few spots still to be filled there are …
The 2020 Tokyo Games are set to be an historic edition of the oldest active sporting tournament on the planet. For starters, they will be held in 2021, but more importantly it will also be the first Olympics in history in which surfing will be included as an event. It only took about 2,800 years …
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