Mexico's Alan Cleland and Brazil's Tatiana Weston-Webb won gold at the World Surfing Games in El Salvador on Wednesday, but Team France was also big a winner as it qualified two Tahitians for the 2024 Paris Olympics at their home break of Teahupo'o.Cleland and Weston-Webb were worthy champions after surfi
Mexico's Alan Cleland and Brazil's Tatiana Weston-Webb won gold at the World Surfing Games in El Salvador on Wednesday, but Team France was also big a winner as it qualified two Tahitians for the 2024 Paris Olympics at their home break of Teahupo'o.
Kauli Vaast, a tube-riding wizard from the Olympic surf venue of Teahupo'o, just missed the finals but took the sole 2024 Games spot for the highest finishing male representing Europe at the International Surfing Association event. Teahupo'o is one of the world's heaviest and most challenging waves, where swells lurch out of deep water onto a shallow coral reef.
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