Tag: Teahupoo
Olympic surfing event should be held in Teahupoo, says Polynesian president
On one side, associations stand up against an aluminum tower, embedded in the coral, intended to accommodate the judges of the Olympic surfing competition in the summer of 2024 and…
Olympic Games-2024: the surfing event will be able to be maintained in Teahupo’o
Europe 1 with AFP 9:13 a.m., December 11, 2023 For months at the heart of tensions between the authorities, the organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and the local…
International Surfing Federation welcomes suspension of work at Teahupoo
Is the organization of the Olympic surfing events on the Teahupoo wave in French Polynesia increasingly compromised? On Wednesday December 6, the International Surfing Federation (ISA) welcomed, in a press…
in Teahupoo, the increasingly contested Olympic surfing events
“I came to apologize to Teahupoo for what happened on Friday, it should never have happened like that” : when he meets the inhabitants of the Tahitian peninsula, Sunday December…
the surfing event maintained at Teahupoo, with a new project for a judges’ tower
They decided. The Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Cojop) of Paris 2024 and the local Tahitian authorities announced, Friday November 17 at 7 p.m., the construction, on…
2024 Olympics: the surfing competition remains in Teahupo’o but with a lighter judges’ tower
Europe 1 with AFP // Photo credit: Jerome Brouillet / AFP 7:39 p.m., November 17, 2023modified to 7:42 p.m., November 17, 2023 For weeks, the Teahupo’o site, in Tahiti, the…
in the foam of Teahupoo, surfer Vahine Fierro leads the way
French surfer Vahine Fierro in the Teahupoo roll, during the World Surf League stage in Tahiti, August 16, 2023. JEROME BROUILLET / AFP Ten months before the Paris 2024 Olympic…
the Polynesian president plans to move the surfing events from the Teahupoo site
Frenchman Jérémy Florès, surfing the Teahupoo wave, in August 2015. GRÉGORY BOISSY / AFP This is a position that risks causing a lot of noise. Tuesday, November 7, the President…