Tihanyi is CEO/co-owner of Surf Diva Surf School and an author. She lives in La Jolla.
The Olympic torch will float through Tokyo and enter the National Stadium during the opening ceremony on July 23, and for the first time our surfers will be there.
San Diego, besides staying classy, has a solid claim as to how surfing managed to beat out numerous other sports trying to stay, or even break into, the coveted Olympic Games.
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The World Surfing Games will complete the qualification process for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with the world's best surfers competing in Surf City, El Salvador
What is the competition format?
A total of 40 athletes (20 men and 20 women) will compete, broken down into multiple rounds, eventually leading to gold and bronze medal finals.
The initial rounds will have four and five-person heats, and the main rounds (round 3 onwards) will have two-person heats, where the winner advances to the next round and the loser is eliminated.
The top two surfers from each heat in round 1 will advance directly to round 3. The bottom two surfers will move onto round 2, which acts as essentially as a repechage’ or ‘second chance’ round. The top three surfers in each heat will advance to round 3, where surfers are seeded into a bracket using their results from the first two rounds, as well as their world ranking.
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