Behind-the-Scenes with Team USA’s Olympic Women Surfers
New docu-series pulls back the curtain on the road to Tokyo
Dashel Pierson
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By now, we all know the full roster of surfers heading to Tokyo for the sport’s Olympic debut. (If you need a refresher, check out the full list of qualified Olympic surfers.)
But how’d it go down? What went into that heated battle to secure those coveted spots?
Well, a new docu-series from Justin Jung, alongside Steelwool Productions, charts the journey of four female Olympic hopefuls from Team USA: Carissa Moore, Caroline Marks, Lakey Peterson, and Courtney Conlogue. (Carissa and Caroline eventually came out on top and nabbed the two tickets for the females to represent the USA in Tokyo via the 2019 CT.)
is an eighth-grader at the San Diego French American School. She lives in La Jolla.
I think having surfing in the Olympics will be a really big moment in history because not many people know about competitive surfing. People base their opinions on stereotypes and don’t really know the true nature of the sport. Now that surfing will be in the Olympics, it will have a global spotlight, and people from around the world are going to be watching these athletes compete for the first time. They will want to try surfing and more people will be able to have the joy of it.
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It was amazing, how fast some people moved. The instant they were bumped out of Rottnest, they got on planes and fled to the Gold Coast or Sydney to wait for the WSL’s charter flight back to the US, or for a coupla days at home before taking off to El Salvador and the ISA Games, then to Kelly’s Ranch for the next CT, ding dong.
The speed of the exits told you a couple of things about CT-World right now. One, that a lot of surfers were mentally fatigued after four back to back CTs following a layoff of over a year. They just wanted to get away.
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Sage Erickson, like most surfers, has a connection with the ocean. She moved around a lot as a child, then surfed her way into a career that has her jumping all over the planet. But everyone needs to have a place they think of as home, and for Erickson, that’s the ocean. “The ocean has always been a constant in my life,” she says. “It’s been something that’s always there. It can’t be taken away and it’s a source of comfort.”
Back in January, the World Surf League announced the
We Are One Ocean campaign. It will call on world leaders to protect and conserve at least 30 percent of the global ocean, including international waters, by 2030.
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