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How pro female surfers conquered the storm waves of sexism
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Female surfers overcome sexism s toll to earn Olympic berth
SALLY HO, Associated Press
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1of6Surfer Johanne Defay, of France, leaves the water after a workout at Surf Ranch during practice rounds for the upcoming Olympics Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Lemoore, Calif. Defay is headed to the Olympics for surfing s debut at the Games, buoyed by an upset win against reigning world champion Carissa Moore, 28, at the high-intensity Surf Ranch competition last month. Though there s much excitement and renewed enthusiasm for the women s game, the objectification, pay disparities and opportunity gap have taken its toll. Industry leaders say they re committed to righting the wrongs that have long held female surfers back in the male-dominated sport. The mental, financial and logistical roadblocks for women in surfing date back centuries.Gary Kazanjian/APShow MoreShow Less
Dreams Die First
Leilani McGonagle, Team Costa Rica. Photo: ISA/Pablo Jimenez
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Well, I had a dream.
My dream was that some young maniac from Costa Rica or Indo would charge forth in Japan and storm the Citadel blow away all the CT stars who’ve managed to smuggle themselves under various guises into the Olympics. Teach those superheroes a lesson, and cover their grommet selves in glory in the process.
To me it just seemed the finest of all possible results from this first appearance of surfing in the Olympic Games…proof that competitive surfing, in this environment at least, might still be an open door. Duke Kahanamoku had been an outsider at the Stockholm Games in 1912, and he won. Why not now, in 2021?
Olympics: Female surfers have overcome a long history of sexism in male-dominated sport Share Updated: 8:05 PM CDT Jul 19, 2021 SALLY HO Share Updated: 8:05 PM CDT Jul 19, 2021
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Show Transcript Yeah, right, That s right. Right, thrills and spills out among the thundering breakers. A headlong race to reach the beach. Yeah. If you have these kind of emotional connection to a space like we re talking about with Hawaiians and the ocean and was surfing in particular, then you become naturally protective and of it, especially when they re, you suffered with so much loss elsewhere. You look at dispossession of native wines from land, from government, from so many different things, then you, it would be natural just to want to hold onto the things that you have left going by right family always, you know, so it s a bit different, you know, I usually compete under the hawaii flag all year with the WsL, but um, I m really like for me tha
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