Evan Quarnstrom

Without a soccer team to root for at the 2024 Olympics, Brazilian fans turned out in record numbers to watch a different Olympic sport: surfing.

Gabriel Medina and Filipe Toledo both recently said that Olympic surfing should be held in a wave pool? Our author's retort? "Yeah, no."

The author, basking in the perks. Photo: Carlos Barria Before leaving to cover the 2024 Olympics in Tahiti, I penned a story on my blog posing a question of utmost importance: Will I get to surf?

We're not there with wave pool yet, says the West Oz native. Photo: ISA It turns out I'm not alone in thinking Olympic surfing shouldn't take place in wave pools.

I don't get star-struck around pro surfers. But the one time I did was the one-and-only time I interviewed Kelly Slater.

This summer, Grace Rohloff fell to her death on Half Dome, causing outcry to change the cable system on the hike. Alex Honnold thinks it should remain. I agree.

Julian at the US Open in 2022. Photo: RB Contact Pool After a three-year break from pro surfing, Julian Wilson is ready for a return.

Olympian Manuel Selman says some of the blame for Vasco Ribeiro's three-year ban should go to his Surfing Federation and Portugal’s National Olympic Committee.

During the Olympic surfing event's most epic, and gnarly, day at Teahupo'o, Pablo Jimenez was in the water to shoot every historic moment. He told us about it.

Is it her time? Photo: Aaron Hughes//World Surf League I view the 2024 WSL Finals as an inflection point: the start of the Caity Simmers era.