Eighteen of the 48 Olympic surfing qualification slots are still open. The World Surfing Games in Puerto Rico will determine who will book tickets to Teahupo’o.
Canadian surfer Sanoa Olin has qualified for the Olympic Games in Paris, France, via a silver-medal performance at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile.
At Tokyo 2020, in which surfing debuted in the Olympic Games, Canada was absent. There were surfers from Brazil, the USA, Australia, Japan, Peru, France, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Morocco, Israel, Germany, and others – but no Canada. That will change, however, at Paris 2024, in which surfing .