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Surfing, Japan and the Olympic Games: How Kanoa Igarashi has come full circle

Surfing, Japan and the Olympic Games: How Kanoa Igarashi has come full circle Posted 16 updated 14 AprApril 2021 at 3:18am Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch 1 (Courtesy: World Surf League) Share Print text only Cancel Hawaii is widely regarded as the birthplace of surfing, but it is Japan that will be remembered as the place where, after decades of trying, it became an Olympic sport. Back in 1912 while receiving one of three swimming gold medals at the Stockholm Olympics, Hawaii s Duke Kahanamoku spoke of his dream that one day surfing, his sport of choice, would be contested at the Games.

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