Surfing olympics: After making its debut at the

After making its debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games, surfing returned for its second Olympic iteration in Paris. However, the surfers were not with all the other athletes in France. Learn about the history, format and rules of surfing as an Olympic sport, and the top American and international athletes to watch in 2024. The Paris Games will feature barrel riding in Teahupoʻo, Tahiti, with a perfect score of 20 points per heat. Competitions in the sport of surfing, governed by the International Surfing Association (ISA), have been held at two editions of the Summer Olympic Games. First selected as one of the discretionary sports at the 2020 and 2024 games, surfing will be inducted as one of the mandatory sports at the 2028 games. Athletes compete in the discipline of shortboard surfing, which is the sole event in the sport at the Olympics. The United States have won the most gold medals (2), while Brazil have won ... The surfing competition continued on 29 July with Brazil’s Gabriel Medina impressing as Teahupo’o came alive in French Tahiti.