July 19, 2021 9:14
The Australian Olympian taking the biggest social media profile to Tokyo is not one of our world-leading swimmers.
Nor is it Wimbledon champ Ash Barty, leading female footballer Sam Kerr or one of the many Boomers basketballers plying their trade in the NBA.
Instead, the title of Australia’s most prominent athlete on social media goes to skateboarder Shane O’Neill, according to research from media monitoring firm Streem who compared the Twitter and Instagram profiles of Australia’s Olympic team.
Despite appearing in just 49 distinct print and online media items in Australia in the past 12 months – compared to Barty’s 9300 – O’Neill is huge on Instagram, where he has amassed 1.4 million followers.
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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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