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C. moore olympic games tokyo 20201/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Garrett Scantling won the decathlon with a personal-best score of 8,647 points to earn a spot at the Tokyo Olympics. “I am so proud of our USA surf team and all of the other countries competitors for representing our sport.EUGENE, Ore. “To see how far surfing has come and what people are doing to earn a living while chasing waves is wonderful,” he said. Then, there were the waves, poor-to-fair at best, a problem that wave-pool technology could solve for future events.įor surfer Joe Cohen, also from Huntington Beach, it’s a moment to think back to when he was a kid and people told him he was wasting his time surfing. “It was a golden opportunity to showcase our sport, and the ball was not only dropped, it was crushed, stepped on, and decimated,” he said. On one hand, it was amazing to watch the historic moment of surfing being an Olympic sport, setting a precedent for generations of surfers to come.īut the coverage, at least in the United States, was “absolutely atrocious, woeful at best.” ![]() Huntington Beach surfer Louis Rice, owner and chiropractor at Atlas Wellness Center in Costa Mesa, was stoked for Ferreira, who he helped recover from a hamstring injury during the US Open of Surfing in 2018, the same year the Brazilian went on to clinch the world championship.īut for the contest itself, Rice had mixed feelings about the sport’s debut. He brought surfing to many parts of the world, and it was his dream to have surfing in the Olympics,” she said. “I recently watched a documentary about him and really got to learn about his life, how he treated people unconditionally, with love and kindness. “Hopefully one day we have just as many top surfers as America, Australia and Brazil.”įor Moore, it was a moment to pay homage to her Hawaiian roots and surfing’s birthplace, speaking about gold medal Olympic swimmer Duke Kahanamoku’s dream back in the 1920s when he was competing for surfing to be included into the games. “My dream one day is to use this boost to push more Japanese surfers, more Asian surfers, to be on tour,” he said. Igarashi said the Olympics have sparked an evolution for surfers in Japan and other Asian countries. The inclusion of the sport was more than just a moment for the athletes who earned medals, but potentially a cultural shift for the sport. ![]() In addition to Igarashi and Buitendag’s silver medals, Australia’s Owen Wright and Japan’s Amuro Tsuzuki earned bronze. “It’s a big time for surfing to be recognized on this level.” “Getting to share the sport with so many people that maybe have never even watched surfing was super special,” she said to the ISA in an interview. Olympic-bound surfers talk readiness, hopes for sport at Lower Trestles surf session.Kolohe Andino’s wild ride into surfing’s Olympic debut.USA’s Surfing Olympic City? San Clemente makes waves as home to Team USA ahead of Summer Games.Surfing’s past paves wave for sport’s future as Olympic debut nears.Carissa Moore wins Olympic surfing gold for the U.S.Moore, who has four WSL world championships and took gold by defeating South Africa’s Bianca Buitendag, said the scale of the Olympics felt so much bigger. “San Clemente should be very proud of them.” “Those two helped earn the two gold medals,” Mignogna said. Because of (my upbringing), I have a lot of passion for the sport,” he said.įor Bob Mignogna, former publisher of Surfing Magazine and former director general of the International Surfing Association, it was an incredible moment for surfing around the world, the ISA and medalists – but also the board makers, he said.įerreira rides boards made by San Clemente shaper Timmy Patterson and Moore has her boards shaped by San Clemente’s Matt Biolos. “I started surfing on a cooler top when I was a kid before I got my first real board and won my first event. He talked about his journey to the Olympics from humble beginnings. Every surfer has a piece of this gold medal.” “All of my accomplishments have been important to me, but I think this Olympic Gold means the most because I was the first one,” he said. “Once it came to the finals in the men’s surfing and the US was not going to be in the finals, I was cheering for our hometown surfer, Kanoa Igarashi, and stoked on his silver,” Castro said.įerreira, in an interview with the International Surfing Association, talked about the gravity of his gold medal. Though Igarashi didn’t get the gold he was after, local surfers were stoked on his silver medal finish.Īlong with finally watching surfing on the Olympic stage, surfer Artie Castro said he was stoked on Moore capturing gold for the U.S., and he was rooting on Igarashi, a two-time US Open of Surfing champ who is well-known among local surfers. ![]()
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