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How To Watch Olympic Surfing

Before watching professional surfers catch their first waves at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, take a minute to brush up on your surfing lingo and learn how to judge the competition. Here, Luli Pereira and Erik Krammer show us what they watch for when judging a wave and teach us the rules of the […]

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New Sports And Old Problems At The Olympics

First, we check in with the Tokyo Olympics, which are still set to officially begin on Friday — although games will have already begun in softball and soccer, and the Tokyo organizing committee chief has stated the Olympics could still be canceled at the very last moment. It’s not been a smooth ramp-up to say […]

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