One of the biggest talking points in the build-up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been in the introduction of five new sports - something that has not been witnessed for a century.
Surfing is set to make its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020 tomorrow with the men's and women's shortboard events.
Surfer Ramzi Boukhiam and boxer Oumaima Bel Habib will carry Morocco’s flag at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Carissa Moore has spoken of her gratitude towards Makinohara which hosted the United States’ surfing team prior to the Olympics here in Tokyo.
The United States’ surfing team have started their pre-Olympic Games training camp with ocean and wave pool practice sessions in Japanese city Makinohara.
International Surfing Association (ISA) President Fernando Aguerre has claimed the sport "deserves" a place on the Paralympic Games programme.
El Salvador has been chosen to host the World Surfing Games again in 2023, with the International Surfing Association (ISA) taking its flagship event back to Surf City following a successful staging earlier this year.
International Surfing Day has been marked by participants worldwide with this year’s event centring around the theme "The Beach Belongs to Everyone".
Sally Fitzgibbons and Joan Duru won the women’s and men’s Grand Finals as the World Surfing Games concluded in El Salvador.
International Surfing Association (ISA) President Fernando Aguerre is keen for future editions of the World Surfing Games to be held in all corners of the globe.
The first places at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics were allocated on the penultimate day of the World Surfing Games in El Salvador.
International Surfing Association (ISA) President Fernando Aguerre believes this year’s event has been "the most wonderful World Surfing Games in history" and not cheapened by a number of high-profile withdrawals.
Pan American Games champion Daniella Rosas says she is pleased with her progress so far at the World Surfing Games in El Salvador, her first competition since the start of the pandemic.
Surfers from Japan and France enjoyed a strong day in the men’s main event round on the sixth day of action at the World Surfing Games.
Surfers continued their quest to secure a Tokyo 2020 Olympic place as the main event and repechage competitions, both offering places in the final of the World Surfing Games, continued in El Salvador.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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