In harmony and in a world-class event. With these two characteristics, the implementation of the new control tower in Teahupo’o, the headquarters of surfing in Paris 2024, was completed, whose construction had been completed in March, almost two months ahead of schedule, and had been one of the main friction axes during the last weeks of 2023.
The official ring in an international event took place in the Tahitian stage (SHISEIDO Tahiti Pro) of the World Surf League, ongoing from Wednesday, May 22 to Friday, May 31 and which functions as a general rehearsal two months before the Olympic competition. .
“We did things well, the tower was named in a traditional way and the situation here has calmed down,” described Max Wasna, president of the Tahitian Surf Federation, in reference to the incipient aluminum structure that replaced the historic wooden and It was accused of damaging the reefs and marine fauna of the peninsula, a premise supported by surfers, the local population and different associations, which came to paralyze the works.
“The coral suffered minimal damage,” said Tim McKenna, an Australian researcher at Teahupo’o. 15,700 kilometers from Paris, the two surfing competitions – men’s and women’s shortboard – will be held between July 27 and 30. It is the only discipline that does not have ticket sales to the general public.
Últimas Noticias
Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons
Beyond the final result, Roland Garros left the feeling that the Italian and the Spaniard will shape the great duel that came to help us through the duel for the end of the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic era.
Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024
She is the third in her sport and the seventh athlete to achieve it in the same edition; in Santiago 2023 she was the first athlete with disabilities to compete at the Pan American level and won a medal.
Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris
Argentinian Rodrigo Isgró received a five-game suspension for an indiscipline in the circuit’s decisive clash that would exclude him until the final or the bronze match; the Federation will seek to make the appeal successful.
Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years
The Kenyan received the maximum sanction for irregularities in his biological passport and the Court considered that he was part of a system of “deliberate and sophisticated doping” to improve his performance. He will lose his record and the bronze medal at the Doha World Cup.
Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”
The American, a seven-time Olympic champion, referred to the case of the 23 positive controls before the Tokyo Games that were announced a few weeks ago and shook the swimming world. “I think our faith in some of the systems is at an all-time low,” he said.
