Thursday, June 3. I’m Brittny Mejia, coming to you from Los Angeles.
Times staff writer Kevin Baxter takes us on a journey to a 13-mile stretch of Salvadoran shoreline that has turned into one of the world’s newest surfing meccas thanks, in part, to Californians.
It’s a spot where the waves are so ripe and the water so warm, tourism officials are hoping it can repair the country’s battered image while the International Surfing Assn. has chosen it as the location of the final qualifying rounds for the debut of surfing as an Olympic sport this summer.
The Olympic trials for surfing are being held in El Salvador. The seeds for this were planted decades ago by young Californians looking for good waves.
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Surfers Chelsea Tuach and Che Allan kept team Barbados’ hopes of progression alive at the ISA World Games in El Salvador after impressive showings yesterday in their first-round heats. Meanwhile, Joshua Burke was the first Barbadian to advance to the third round of the competition. He qualified second from his second-round heat on Monday afternoon with a respectable total of 12.24, just short of Canadian Cody Young who qualified in …
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