How to Watch Surfing at the 2024 Olympics – NBC 6 South Florida

Surfing made its debut at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and was one of the highlights of the Games.

The competition is now one of the most anticipated sports for Paris 2024.

The surfing competition will not take place in France, but on Tahiti, a French Polynesian island in the Pacific Ocean.

Here’s all the information you need to know about the sport ahead of the Olympics:

When does Olympic surfing start?

Surfers lucky enough to catch waves and win a medal at the 2024 Olympic Games will do so over four days, from Saturday 27 July to Tuesday 30 July.

What is the surfing program for the 2024 Olympic Games?

The Olympic surfing schedule below is in Eastern Standard Time, which is six hours ahead of local time in Tahiti.

How to watch Olympic surfing in 2024

Surfing at the 2024 Paris Olympics will be broadcast on NBC and streamed on Olympic platforms Peacock and NBC Olympics beginning Saturday, July 27.

• Data: July 27 – July 30
• Medal Events: Shortboard for men and women
• Location: Theehupo’o, Tahiti
• TV channels: NBC
• Streaming: Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com, NBC App, NBC Olympics App

Where are the Olympic Surfing Games held?

The surfing competitions take place 14,500 kilometres from Paris, on the beaches of Teahupo’o, which hosts one of the stages of the World Surf League (WSL).

Iconic, heavy and extreme: when it comes to surfing waves, Teahupo’o is as spectacular as it gets.

The competition takes place near the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia.

It is a highly regarded surfing spot, known for its breathtakingly beautiful waves, which are quite challenging even for the most experienced surfers.

How do the waves at Teahupo’o affect Olympic surfing?

Teahupo’o is a left hand break, meaning the wave tilts to the left for the surfers.

This means that when a surfer paddles out to catch the wave, he has to turn left to ride the wave. It also means that goofy footers are better suited here, as they tend to prefer to go left.

A goofy footer is a surfer who does not maintain a fixed stance and places his right foot forward and his left foot back.

When we think of Paris 2024, this wave is therefore ideally suited to crazy football players like Olympic gold medalist Italo Ferreira, three-time world champion Gabriel Medina, American Caroline Marks and Brazilian Tatiana Weston-Webb.

How many surfers will compete in the 2024 Olympics?

A total of 48 surfers will compete in the Paris competition: 24 of each gender and a total of eight more than in Tokyo 2020. France, as host country, is entitled to two places, one in the women’s tournament and one in the men’s tournament.

The two Olympic surfing competitions in 2024 are the men’s shortboarding and women’s shortboarding.