Gabriel Medina may be competing for gold, but he's already won coolest photo at the 2024 Olympics. The Brazilian surfer earned a huge 9.90 score during the 5th heat of men's surfing on Monday in ...

Surfing is inherently tied to travel. What began as wave riding centuries ago in Polynesia has evolved into an international obsession that now compels surfers to chase waves all over the world. And ...

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For the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, surfing is back and bigger than ever. Olympic favorites like Carissa Moore and Caroline Marks will be taking to the ocean once again, making for an exciting ...

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This week, 40 surfers, including four Americans, are hitting Tsurigasaki Beach in Japan for surfing’s Olympic debut. (That is, if the weather allows.) Two Brazilians, Gabriel Medina and Italo Ferreira ...

Carissa Moore (left) became the first American female to qualify for surfing's Olympic debut. Caroline Marks, 19 (right), a member of Team USA Women's Olympic Surf Team, is the youngest female to ...

If you visited Imsouane—a small fishing village in Morocco turned surf travel hotspot—early last year, you'd have walked through a lively labyrinth of surf cafes, hostels, and ceramic vendors, perhaps ...

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Dani Burt is a World Adaptive Surfing Champion, Doctor of Physical Therapy and fierce advocate for gender equality in adaptive surfing. When Dani Burt woke up from a 45-day, medically induced coma ...

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