World Surf League

Aug 5, 2024 | worldsurfleague.com | Ashton Goggans

Fitting that Finals Day landed on the final day of the Olympic waiting period, letting newcomers to the sport get a taste of the patience required sometimes to be a surf fan while the rest of us crossed our fingers that the swell forecast to arrive on Monday afternoon peeked around the eastern coast of Tahiti earlier than later.

Aug 4, 2024 | worldsurfleague.com | Ashton Goggans

Of the 48 surfers who arrived on Tahitian shores carrying with them the hopes of their representative nations and dreams of Olympic Gold-only eight remain. Two will go home empty-handed, a Medal just out of their reach, while six of them will return home as national and international stars.  After an emotional rollercoaster first four rounds of competition, two Brazilians and two French remain, joined by a lone American, Peruvian, Costa Rican, and Australian.

Aug 1, 2024 | worldsurfleague.com | Ashton Goggans

It was always going to be difficult to follow up the ridiculous drama the world got to enjoy from Day 3 of Olympic surfing in Tahiti. But with a challenging and unpredictable forecast for the remaining days of the waiting period, the officials called on Women's Round 3, as well as the Men's and Women's Quarterfinals, in lumpy, mixed up conditions that to the millions of new fans of the sport would have looked like a different location entirely.

Jul 29, 2024 | worldsurfleague.com | Ashton Goggans

After yesterday evening's dramatics, and the first pack of 16 surfers having their Olympic dreams cut short, the chance of running a full day of heats in contestable conditions for the third day in a row seemed too good to be true.

Jul 25, 2024 | worldsurfleague.com | Ashton Goggans

With more than 32 individual sports deciding Medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics, it's easy to get a little overwhelmed trying to make sense of exactly where, when, and how surf fans can tune in live to Teahupo'o-almost 10,000 miles and 12-hours time difference between the rest of the festivities in Paris-and exactly how the whole competition will work. Before we get into the event's format and rules, here's how to find the event streaming online in your respective international region.