An estimated 10,500 athletes from across the world descended upon Paris this past week as the city prepared to host the 2024 Olympics, but 48 athletes aren’t there. Instead, they’re on island ...

Jost is an avid amateur surfer, who first started surfing in his early 20s when a friend from SNL taught him. Now, he surfs every chance he can get, be it in Montauk or Puerto Ric ...

Tahiti's two distinct surfing seasons allow both inexperienced and expert surfers to take advantage of the varying swells. Travelers can head to several surf spots on the island: Papara ...

First up, Tereva David of Tahiti, widely respected as one of the wisdom keepers of the world’s heaviest wave, Teahupo’o. To surf in Tahiti is to experience surfing unlike almost anywhere else.

The International Surfing Association (ISA ... With a proper swell, the 2024 event in Tahiti should be a fireworks show. If a jaw-dropping event is what organizers want, they certainly picked ...

The Olympic surfing competition will take place in Teahupo’o on the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia. The village annually hosts the Billabong Pro Tahiti surf competition as part of the ...

Tahiti local Raimana Van Bastolea rides an enormous barrel at Teahupo'o. The view of the world changes from above. Drone photography proliferated visual storytelling in recent years and continues ...

The results are in from the 2025 Air Tahiti Rangiroa Pro surfing competition and the outcome left one surfer in awe. 24-year-old Finn McGill beat all odds and c ...

"I think the Olympics are going back to where the surf was born." Surfing was recorded in French Polynesia, now an overseas territory of France, as early as the 12th century but only made its first ...