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Olympic Warmup Wipeouts: Carnage at Teahupo'o Ahead of Paris 2024
By Dashel Pierson,
5 days ago
Ever since cameras were first pointed at surfers, there have been wipeouts. The documented carnage – oft seen in surf videos, like ...Lost films from the late nineties into the early aughts – were designed for viewers to cringe, shudder and, in some sick sense of schadenfreude , relish. It’s human nature; it’s simple; we like seeing others eat shit.
Of course, we don’t like seeing people actually getting hurt, their lives being at stake. But still, even when the stakes are high, like at the Paris 2024 Olympic surfing venue, Teahupo’o, Tahiti, we become rubberneckers on the freeway during an accident. We can’t look away when things go wrong. And at a wave like that, one notoriously tricky, things go wrong quite a bit. So, ahead of the Olympic event (July 27th-August 5th), there were plenty of wipeouts going down during the practice sessions. Here’s a handful of them, frozen in time, for your viewing pleasure.
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