OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — As one of the new sports added to the program for 2020 Tokyo Olympics, surfing is arguably the most glamorous and is sure to bring a new dimension as the IOC seeks a younger ...

Four new Olympic sports will make their debut at Tokyo 2020, which gets underway on Friday. Surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing and karate will all feature at the summer Olympics for the first time ...

Surfing’s Olympic debut coincided with a welcomed swell arriving this weekend like a gift from the weather gods. After all the skepticism, pessimism and uncertainty accompanying surfing’s tube ride to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese residents may be worried about the prospect of a typhoon forming off the coast next week, but the surfers taking part in the Olympic Games are welcoming the possibility of ...

(Reuters) - Focus on surfing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS * Surfing is making its Olympic debut as part of the IOC's bid to attract a younger audience to the Games * Shortboards, ...

Surfing has a lot riding on its Olympic debut: a taste of the mainstream spotlight, athletic legitimacy for the uniquely four-dimensional sport, and, perhaps, some newfound respect so it can finally ...

SHIDASHITA BEACH, Japan (Reuters) - Surfing's unpredictability is part of its charm and Tokyo 2020 organizers got a taste this week of what might face them next year when the sport makes its Olympics ...

Over more than a century since the Olympic games were first introduced in their modern form back in 1896, the landscape of the sporting world has been altered dramatically by the introduction and ...

The Tokyo Games have arrived unlike any other in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the complexities it has created to put on a major international sporting event. What unfolds over the next 17 days ...

SHIDASHITA BEACH, Japan (Reuters) - Surfing's unpredictability is part of its charm and Tokyo 2020 organisers got a taste this week of what might face them next year when the sport makes its Olympics ...