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Surfing, Japan and the Olympic Games: How Kanoa Igarashi has come full circle – ABC News
Kanoa Igarashi will carry the hopes of a nation on his shoulders when surfing makes its long-awaited bow at the delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo, competing on the…
Hawaii is widely regarded as the birthplace of surfing, but it is Japan that will be remembered as the place where, after decades of trying, it became an Olympic sport.
Back in 1912 while receiving one of three swimming gold medals at the Stockholm Olympics, Hawaii’s Duke Kahanamoku spoke of his dream that one day surfing, his sport of choice, would be contested at the Games.
Surfing exploded in Australia after ‘the Duke’ visited in 1915, giving a famous demonstration of board riding at Freshwater…
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