Fingers crossed we get something like this at Teahupo'o during the Olympics window. Photo: Ryan "Chachi" Craig The gymnastics mat doesn’t change. The basketball court is regulation. The pool, ...
Matahi Drollet is one of the best barrel riders at Teahupo'o. He's so good that Surfer dubbed him the "prince of Teahupo'o" last year. When he was just 16, he won the XXL award for surfing one of the ...
Surf's up for the 2024 Olympics. And while the vast majority of events will take place on the French mainland, there's one sport that will have a special site of its own, nearly 10,000 miles away: ...
Tom Lowe has broken his silence following a near-drowning in Tahiti. The British-born big charger surfer was surfing Chopes last Thursday, when he took off on a wave, got clamped by the foamball, and ...
As the Olympics get going in earnest this week, not everyone's attention is focused on the host city, Paris. Surf fans are heading to Tahiti, which is half a world away in French Polynesia. Why? Well, ...
Jerome Brouillet will forever be associated with one image: the viral kickout of Gabriel Medina at Teahupo’o during the 2024 Paris Olympics. But the Tahiti-based photographer has a deep portfolio of ...
Follow live coverage of day five of the 2024 Paris Olympics, including dedicated basketball, swimming, and soccer coverage While boats floated the River Seine, Celine Dion belted out “Hymne à l’amour” ...
Teahupo’o, Tahiti is a sketchy wave. In fact, it’s up there on the Mount Rushmore of the world’s heaviest, scariest, deadliest waves alongside the likes of slabbing spots like Shipstern Bluff, The ...
TEAHUPO'O, French Polynesia -- In Teahupo'o, the ocean is the heart of village life. Boats bob in the lagoon in the south of Tahiti at sunrise before fishers start their day. Many set out early with ...
For the past week and a half, Nick and Hannah have been wandering around Tahiti, in and out of the water, watching and listening as this unique beast known as Olympic surfing takes shape. Here’s just ...
TEAHUPO'O, Tahiti -- Surfers hugged their boards and paddled over an enormous wave off the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia. Professional surf cinematographer and director, Aaron Lieber, was in ...