It’s a controversial choice, but it’s also a legendary location for surfers around the world: the surfing events of the 2024 Olympic Games will be held in Tahiti, off the coast of the village of Teahupoo. A controversial choice due to its impact on health and the marine ecosystem. For its part, the Paris 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee assures that it has prioritized the sporting aspect by choosing “the best French surf spot at this time of year”.
The place is indeed well known to fans of the discipline. The wave that rolls out there is particularly beautiful, very massive, almost tubular and located in a heavenly setting. It serves above all as a backdrop for an image that has remained famous in the surfing community. On August 17, 2000, the American Laird Hamilton surfed the Millenium Wave there, “the millennium wave”named after its photographer, Tim McKenna. The world met the two actors of this legendary moment. They tell us.
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To design this video, the teams of Monde met the great figures of surfing of the time, modeled the behavior of the wave in 3D and explored the exceptional archive images of this legendary moment. This great story reveals the origins of the hunt for the biggest waves in the world, like the one in Nazaré, Portugal.
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2024-07-18 10:00:09
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