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Teahupo'o, Tahiti. 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 ...
13 lip 2024 · The addition of Teahupo'o to the World Championship Tour would usher in a new era of competitive surfing, which insisted surfers be the best in the world in all conditions, from two to twenty feet, in beach breaks, reefs, points, and even mutant slabs like Teahupo'o. Learn more about Teahupo'o here.
12 lip 2024 · Teahupo'o. While not everyone agrees on its preferred nomenclature, for the last two decades, this hollow, pristinely beautiful and supremely terrifying Tahitian reef pass has been universally recognized as one of surfing's most respected international competitive proving grounds.
14 lip 2024 · The Tahiti Pro immediately became a near-universal tour favorite, both with surfers and surf fans, and is considered one of the most prestigious and well-respected events on tour. Impressively, Gabriel Medina , Mick Fanning , Bobby Martinez , and Andy Irons all won the event twice.
Teahupoʻo is known for its surf break and resulting heavy, glassy waves, often reaching 2 to 3 m (7 to 10 ft), and sometimes up to 7 m (23 ft). Because of the regularity and size of its waves, it hosts the annual Billabong Pro Teahupoo surf competition (part of the World Championship Tour (WCT) surfing circuit) and the 2024 Olympic surfing ...
16 maj 2024 · The Wave: Teahupoo. Teahupoo is known in the surfing world for its spectacular left-hand barreling waves, which detonate on a very shallow coral structure, sometimes slightly over a foot (30 centimeters). The wave breaks around 500 yards off the coastline in a local reef pass.
31 sie 2023 · See, feel, surf the legendary wave. The Islands of Tahiti is preparing to host the surfing competition of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The venue is Teahupo’o, and its legendary wave ‘jaws’.
