What’s next for Olympic surfing at Teahupo’o? A scheduling update

Wednesday 31 July marks day 4 of the 10-day Olympic browsing window on the Tahitian browsing venue of Teahupo’o in French Polynesia. The competitors has been on maintain since unfavourable circumstances blew in on the afternoon of Monday 29 July, delaying the ladies’s browsing spherical 3 competitors.

The competitors has seen a wide range of climate circumstances, most notably large waves on Monday morning throughout males’s spherical 3 — an occasion that may go down in browsing competitors historical past.

Olympics.com spoke with Worldwide Browsing Affiliation (ISA) president Fernando Aguerre at Teahupo’o, 9,000 miles from the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 host metropolis of Paris, in regards to the present circumstances and the scheduling plans.

After asserting an additional maintain Wednesday morning, Aguerre defined that that is “the ABC of any browsing competitors — you are on standby.” He mentioned that regardless of the delays, “there’s an pleasure you possibly can really feel once you stroll round right here. Even the surfers who’re out of the competitors, they’re hanging out with those who’re within the competitors.

“Everybody can loosen up and recuperate, significantly after that intense Monday. There have been many wipeouts; it’s not the identical to wipe out anyplace on the planet as to wipe out right here.

“Whenever you see a surfer going over the lip and falling on the reef, we’re glad we haven’t had any main accidents. And wish to proceed defending the athletes — that’s precedence one, after which it’s the competitors.”

The choice on whether or not to begin girls’s spherical 3 can be made at 5:45 p.m. Tahiti time on Wednesday 31 July (5:45 a.m. Paris time on Thursday 1 August).

As soon as the competitors is named again “on,” it’ll resume with girls’s spherical 3, adopted by quarter-finals, semi-finals and the bronze- and gold-medal matches.

The ten-day surf window runs by 5 August— see the total schedule right here.