Why Is Olympic Surfing 16,000 Kilometers From Paris?

Surfers at the 2024 Paris Games, where surfing will take part in the Olympics for the first time, They competed in a place far from Paris. This place isn’t even on the French mainland! Tahiti, a French territory exactly 15,700 kilometers away.

So why not in paris From Tahiti?

Surfing, which took part in the Olympics for the first time at the 2021 Tokyo Games, created an excitement never seen before.

In Tokyo, the competitions were held on a beach approximately 96 km away. But the waves best surfers around the world It wasn’t very impressive.

waves in tokyo In the early days it was waist level and although it grew a little later, it was not big and strong enough for the best surfing performances.

The situation was completely different at the 2024 Paris Games. Surfers are much bigger, They encountered heavy and fast waves. The waves became the Teahupo’o waves, known as one of the most dangerous waves in the world.

Teahupo’o is a place located on the south coast of Tahiti and is famous for the speed and size of its waves.

Teahupo’o waves are not only big, but incredibly intense and dangerous. Even a small wave piece is estimated to weigh around 4,082 kg.

The waves caught the attention of a Tahitian man who was surfing a large wave recorded for the first time in 1985. Held here in 1997 a successful surfing competition, It attracted the attention of many professional surfers.

France used Tahiti and surrounding islands as a trading post, colony, and even testing ground for nearly 200 years. Now these regions one of the most dangerous Olympic events It uses as.

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