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2 sie 2024 · Locals have refused to let the Paris 2024 Olympic Games damage their environment – or their way of life – in Teahupo'o, Tahiti.
29 lip 2024 · Teahupo'o is the site of the surfing event for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games—which has generated some controversy over fears of damaging its coral reef and even changing its famous waves.
21 lip 2024 · Hosting the surfing event in Tahiti is certainly doing things differently. But it raises yet more questions about the IOC’s claims of leadership in environmental sustainability.
30 lip 2024 · Olympic Surfing Comes to a ‘Poisoned’ Paradise. In 1974, a radioactive cloud from a French nuclear test drifted over Teahupo’o, Tahiti, now the surfing venue for the Paris Games. Villagers ...
8 paź 2024 · The debate on sustainability with an emphasis on the surfing venue has mainly focused on the local community’s stance against what can be described as a post-colonial international extraction, the recomposition of the naturally structured environment, and the Olympics’ lasting impact on top of climate change in the region.
11 gru 2023 · When Tahiti was selected as the surfing site, dignitaries in coastal resorts in mainland France, such as Biarritz, were unimpressed – not least because of the cost and the carbon emissions...
7 gru 2023 · Olympic surfers will have to brave some of the world's biggest waves when they compete in French Polynesia next July. But the faraway venue has also raised many logistical and environmental...
