Surfing’s long-awaited Olympic debut came some 100 years after Duke Kahanamoku’s push to include the sport in the Games, during Tokyo 2020, and it also coincided with the current rise in wave pool proliferation.
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Over a century ago, a young Duke Kahanamoku found himself far from the silver sand beaches at home in Hawaii, and instead, at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.