Maybe this will happen one day, golf is in at Rio so why not surfing?,taken from surfer magazine

+1
Leave the Olympics as is, don't like how they tack on sports here and there, like tennis FFS

might as well wring the last bit of soul out of surfing.
been doing a little thinking about the new wave pools on their way to a suburb near you and i'm wondering wether they have really though about the safety aspect of these things? even if the pool bottom is covered in a soft coating it's gunna hurt if you get pile driven into the bottom? and the market focus is to get newbies into surfing, i can see carnage and law suits all over the place.
i've tried the flowrider at dreamworld a few times and was super sore after bouncing off the bottom for an hour and that surface is very soft and forgiving.

Also in 1912 (Games of the 5th "V" Olympiad), Women competed in individual swimming races for the first time.
The Australian girls took out Gold & Silver.
Gold - Fanny Durack
Silver - Mini Wylie
(seriously, those names are not made up! )
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_Summer_Olympics

Agree Woody, SUP Racing will get there too. Plus it would be easy to tack it onto Rowing & Kayak. Same river / same venue.

There were some surfboard props at one of the Sydney Olympic ceremonies.

The Oils played too.

HumanCartoon said...

The whitewater SUP guys could do the whitewater canoe/kayak slalom course?

Wash your mouth out with soap

ShireSUP said...

Simondo said...

There were some surfboard props at one of the Sydney Olympic ceremonies.

The Oils played too.

Sadly its hard to watch the disHonourable Member for Kingsford Smith prancing around in his pyjamas with SORRY on them give the crap that has come out of his mouth since becoming a Canberra Groupie................

Simondo said...

The Duke wanted surfing in The Olympics.

The Duke's Olympic record (swimming for USA);
1912 - Stockholm - Gold - 100m Free, and Silver in 4x200m Free.
1916 - Berlin - Games were obviously cancelled
1920 - Antwerp - 2 x Gold - 100m Free and 4x200m Free
1924 - Paris - Silver - 100m Free

There's little doubt he would have won Gold in Berlin. He was paddling heavy solid redwood boards in the surf for training!

John Wayne?

MFPH said...

Surfing as a demo carnival at the 1956 olympics,here are 3 US surfers,one of which is Greg Noll

Surf life saving ran 2 carnivals, surfing wasn't an event. From memory I don't even think the carnival were officially Olympic events.

^^^^

Me and Dude were hitting on the Dutch girls...