The Surfing Olympics kicks off this Saturday at the Iconic Te’auhupo’o!

There’s swell and the conditions look good to start of day 1 of the 10-day holding period.

Paris 2024’s surfing events will take place over four days from 27 July to 5 August.

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5X World Champ and 1st Gold Medalist, Carissa Moore charging Te’ahupo’o. Pictured front page by Sean M. Haffey

Paris 2024 aims to take celebrations to new heights and treat audiences to breathtaking sports in the spirit that has guided the Olympic Games since their inception.

It has added four spectacular disciplines, including surfing, and hand-picked spots and venues to match them.

For its second appearance at the Games following the Tokyo 2020 Games in 2021, surfing has a setting that is worthy of this event in Tahiti’s Teahupo’o wave, one of the most selective in the world and without doubt one of the most beautiful.

The decision to stage the surfing competitions at Teahupo’o aligns with Paris 2024’s ambition to spread the Games across France.

It offers an opportunity to engage French overseas territories and their communities in the Olympic Games—for the first time in history—while showcasing France’s rich and diverse heritage.

The waves at Teahupo’o will offer an Olympic-class challenge for the athletes, and treat fans in Tahiti and around the world to a breathtaking experience.

Tahiti will host a one-of-a-kind competition in a location that surfers the world over revere.

Teahupo’o has been hosting the Pro Tahiti world championship event for over two decades and is one of the highlights on the men’s championship tour.

It is a dream spot for many leading surfers, and some of them—including Gabriel Medina, Kelly Slater, Jérémy Florès, Andy Irons and Mark Occhilupo—have been lucky enough to conquer it.

From 1999 to 2006, it was part of the women’s circuit, which made its big return in August 2021.

The competition venue has been designed to protect the island’s extraordinary natural surroundings.

The Olympic Village will be made up of modular homes.

The event will not affect the coastline because the waves break offshore.

And fans will be able to enjoy the thrills and chills at the live sites while celebrating Polynesian culture, the Olympic spirit and Paris 2024’s values.

WOMEN’S SURFING HEAT DRAW FOR PARIS 2024

Heat 1: Yolanda Hopkins (POR), Caroline Marks (USA), Sarah Baum (RSA)
Heat 2: Sol Aguirre (PER), Janire Etxabarri (ESP), Vahine Fierro (FRA)
Heat 3: Anat Lelior (ISR), Sanoa Dempfle-Olin (CAN), Tyler Wright (AUS)
Heat 4: Tatiana Weston-Webb (BRA), Molly Picklum (AUS), Caitlin Simmers (USA)
Heat 5: Johanne Defay (FRA), Brisa Hennessy (CRC), Candelaria Resano (NCA)
Heat 6: Tainá Hinckel (BRA), Camila Kemp (GER), Luana Silva (BRA)
Heat 7: Nadia Erostarbe (ESP), Siqi Yang (CHN), Saffi Vette (NZL)
Heat 8: Carissa Moore (USA), Teresa Bonvalot (POR), Matsuda Shino (JPN)

MEN’S SURFING HEAT DRAW FOR PARIS 2024

Heat 1: Ethan Ewing (AUS), Tim Elter (GER), Jordy Smith (RSA)
Heat 2: Joan Duru (FRA), Jack Robinson (AUS), Matthew McGillivray (RSA)
Heat 3: Alonso Correa (PER), Filipe Toledo (BRA), Kanoa Igarashi (JPN)
Heat 4: Gabriel Medina (BRA), Connor O’Leary (JPN), Bryan Perez (ESA)
Heat 5: Ramzi Boukhiam (MAR), Billy Stairmand (NZL), João Chianca (BRA)
Heat 6: Andy Criere (ESP), John John Florence (USA), Alan Cleland (MAR)
Heat 7: Kauli Vaast (FRA), Lucca Mesinas (PER), Griffin Colapinto (USA)
Heat 8: Rio Waida (INA), Leonardo Fioravanti (ITA), Inaba Reo (JPN)

The 24 athletes of each gender slated to compete will be divided into eights heats comprised of three athletes each. The winner of each heat will advance to the round of 16, while the remaining two will compete in a repechage.

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Legacy

The Teahupo’o site will continue to host the World Surf Championship Tour after the Games. The small-scale overlay installations set up for the Games will disappear after the competition. The Olympic Village, based on temporary facilities modelled on traditional Polynesian homes known as ‘farès’, will be relocated and redeployed as social housing, benefiting local communities.

Surfers perform maneuvers and tricks on a wave that are scored by five judges based on the variety, type and difficulty of the tricks.

Surfers are also judged on their speed, power and flow (the way in which a surfer seamlessly connects their moves from one to the next).

Shortboards are the surfboards of choice for the Olympics.

Smaller than longboards, shortboards are faster and more maneuverable, which makes them the ideal board for performing spectacular tricks.

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The Olympic Games Paris 2024 haven’t even started and we already have an Olympic first—the first ever floating Olympic Village.

The 48 competing surfers are arriving in Tahiti, the location of the famed Teahopo’o wave where surfing will be contested. And they are loving the unique cruise ship accommodations.

Tokyo 2020 surfing silver medalist Kanoa Igarashi has shared a first look of the Aranui 5 cruise ship which serves as the floating Athlete Village.

In the 1920s, surfing fans including three-time Olympic swimming freestyle champion and native Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku began campaigning for the sport to be added to the Olympic program.

Many years later, surfing finally made it onto the Olympic program for the Tokyo 2020 Games, and will return for Paris 2024; the legendary surfing spot Teahupo’o in Tahiti has been selected as the venue for the surfing competition.

The 2024 Paris Olympics can be watched through various channels and streaming platforms. Here are your options:

TV Channels: Tune in to NBC, USA Network, CNBC, E!, or the Golf Channel to catch the live broadcasts.
Streaming Platforms:
- Peacock: You can stream every event on Peacock.
- NBCOlympics.com: Visit the NBCOlympics website for live streaming.
- NBC App: Use the NBC app to watch the Olympics.
- NBC Olympics App: Download the dedicated NBC Olympics app for coverage.
- Paris Extra 1 and Paris Extra 2: These 24/7 channels are available on various platforms, including Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, and more ¹.