2024 Olympics at Teahupo’o: Here’s How the Qualifying Process Works – TheInertia.com

The 2024 Olympics might still be a few years out, but if the last few have has taught us anything, its that those years are flying by. And, since the 2024 Olympics are of the French variety, Olympic surfing is set to run at Teahupoo which, of course, is just about the best possible place to run an Olympic surfing event. The ISA, forward looking as it is, just released the official avenues of qualification.

The Olympic QS builds on the previous system used for Tokyo 2020, reads a press release, ensuring the participation of the worlds best professional surfers as well as promoting geographical universal opportunities for surfers from around the world at the Games.

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Surfing did pretty well in its inaugural year at the 2020 Tokyo Games, and if wave quality is any barometer of how much interest the general public shows, Teahupoo is going to be a chart topper if the conditions cooperate.

Teahupoo will be a spectacular, magical showcase for our sport in the Olympics, ISA President Fernando Aguerre said. Surfing was a very popular sport in the 2020 Tokyo Games. Olympic Surfing in 2024, will certainly expand on the Tokyo success. We are super excited to share this tangible pathway for surfers to reach their Olympic dreams.

Teahupoo was chosen because Olympic organizers decided that it would offer an opportunity to engage French overseas territories and their communities in the Olympic Games for the first time in history while showcasing Frances rich and diverse heritage. A good decision, right?

According to Aguerre, there were a few important considerations that came into play when figuring out how the qualification process was going to work. It also dictated a few small tweaks.

Surfing is such a personal, individual expression of performance that it was really important for us to continue to enable the surfers to win the right to qualify based on their own performances, he explained. For this reason, all qualification places, with a few noted special exceptions, will be made by name. Providing the winning teams at our World Surfing Games in 2022 and 2024 the opportunity to win additional slots, regardless of the two-per country limit, is an important innovation that will further motivate the top surfing nations to win the ISA Team World Champion Trophy.

So heres how its going to work, all bullet-pointed and straight(ish) forward.

The hierarchical order of qualification will be as follows:

Got that all? Me neither. But if you want to dive a little deeper into it, theres more here. But honestly, Im just excited about the possibility of running an Olympic event at maxing Chopes.

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