The surfing competition for the Paris 2024 Olympics will not be staged at any of France’s famous mainland surf spots. Not at Biarritz or Anglet or even the thumping sand-bottom beach break at Hossegor ...

TEAHUPO'O, Tahiti, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Gabriel Medina is a competitive surfing machine. A jewellery-clad, helicopter-riding superstar, the Brazilian is a tattooed terminator who paddles faster, pulls ...

SEATTLE — Surfing is one of the five new sports introduced at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Unlike most other Olympic events, surfing requires a hand from Mother Nature. Instead of riding a massive ...

Amidst the chaos of sand storms, onshore winds and collisions with photographers on crucial end section maneuvres, the Surf Abu Dhabi Pro was a tale of two ends of the judging scale, with competitors ...

TOKYO—South African surfer Bianca Buitendag uses some apps and websites to gauge wind and wave conditions before she competes, but she doesn’t consider surfing a high-tech sport. It’s mostly about ...

The woman in the Austin airport gave us a perplexed look. “What ya’ll got in those big bags?” she asked in her thick Southern accent. Surfboards, of course. Texas isn’t known as a surfing hotspot, ...