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As a Polynesian (albeit Samoan), I am delightfully surprised that you included the truth of the Pacific’s colonial history and the troubles of the Maohi. I also appreciate it was from such an objective lens.
Even the first people of a region went to battle with their neighbors and took land and resources, its literally no different than any nation on earth, thats how countries are formed.
this is the kind of information not covered in French/English history. All we are told about places like this are that certain groups ‘fought for us i ww2’
Wouldn't be surprised if they did more super secret stuff back then & beyond 1996. France has a good image but people don't realise the current level of colonialism they still practise & that their secret intelligence agencies are right up there with the CIA when it comes to global operations kept secret. Deffo got more skeletons in the closest not just in Africa but their countless super remote overseas territories.
So I struggle with this channel, not being a sports fan. But this is one of those videos that really brings sports closer to what I understand and that’s why I love supporting this channel in the end. Sometimes you make something rather unrelatable to me make total sense and be fascinating. Thank you!!!
@@Harabeck "Search Party is a new independent video journalism project that will investigate and decode the most important and complicated news around geopolitics and global SPORTS."
I think Surfing will be one of those sports that leaves and reappears every couples of Olympics depending on where it’s hosted. Kinda like how Baseball & Softball come and go depending on if it’s popular in the host country. It was featured in Tokyo 2020 but not included this year, but will make a comeback in 4 year in LA 2028. Surfing is only really good if you can get waves like they get in Tahiti. I haven’t paid attention to the surfing events during this Olympics but now that I see the waves, oh my God, now I just have to watch!
yesterday the waves were simply outstanding. In Tokyo they were really bad though. It's really hard to schedule such an event that depends on the nature
2028 should have some amazing perfect surfing in Huntington Beach and LA could have some of the best Skateboarding Using Woodward Skate parks outdoor but also use more main indoor if needed for some reason like smog, very high heat in temps, or very unlikely rain. Could even use one of the several Nike parks or the main Vans park as well.
As a surfer and a journalist, thanks for doing the sport some justice. Non-endemic reporting on surfing, even by big outlets, is generally pretty cringe, but this showed you'd done your homework. Great to get a new perspective on a location and a wave I'm so familiar with. Thanks again Sam and the SP team
Great piece as ever Sam. Just for infographic accuracy though, low pressure systems spin in a clockwise (cyclonic) direction in the Southern Hemisphere, hence the very low pressure systems with sustained strong wind are referred to as cyclones in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean
Except the waves on the day of the finals were terrible or even non-existent during some heats, which hurt some athlete's performances. I know we can't control nature, but the lack of waves during the finals was hurtful to watch
I just say news saying that the surfing in Tahiti has been postponed due to its weather and i wanted to search why is it in Tahiti in google. Subconsciously i clicked RUclips instead of chrome and boom the first video in recommendations is this. Wow amazing!
Just want to say your channel is perfect for what I’m interested in. Honestly can’t remember how but heard of the channel being a thing and subbed right away, yours plus howtown are just banger channels right now
I think it's good for Tahiti to hold these games as it brings more importance to overseas territories rather than mainland France. This is something that I find important for us french to treat everyone as equal, wheter you live in mainland France or 15000km away. On top of that, vast majority of local people from those territories are proud to be french so why not.
New Caledonia is very specific and only a little minority among all the french overseas territories, so clearly a "vast majority" is the best term you could use
@@paulbiologistyes, we see. We also see that they voted in 2021 for their independenceand 96.5% decided to remain french. Like every countries we have our problems, and more support should be offered to our compatriots in the overseas territories. However, constantly denying that the democratic process of auto determination did indeed happen, and rejecting its result because it doesn't go in the direction of post colonialism that some expect is a slippery slope. You cannot ask people to choose and then criticise their choice when their voice is different than what you expect.
Loving these sports stories. Love how you link it to a wider political, economical and/or historical context. Would be happy for you to do 2 sport for every 1 geo-pol vid. But, they're all great! Keep the content coming
I've been a huge sports fan all my life and find beauty in it, especially since sports is a form of art that imitates life. More recently, I've understood why I feel this way by binging your content. Love your channel, keep up the good work! ❤️
Just a quick fact check. After local Vernaudon on 85, it was actually bodyboarders Mike Stewart and Ben Severson who were the first foreigners who pioneered this wave into the world map. The wave was mostly kept underground for locals and some hardcore bodyboarders until the photo of the 2000.
FYI, your graphic of a storm is a northern hemisphere hurricane or typhoon rotating anti-clockwise. In the southern hemisphere, storms rotate clockwise.
That wave is a legend for a reason. There are maybe 3 that can come close. I can think of two maybes. Its on a level though you're just trying to survive. Exit stage right. Head high is tough, try doing something cool while falling off of a 10 story building thats chasing you and trying to smash you into a pile of rocks.
Oh tahiti the land of dreams. If only Arthur wasn’t hoarding his millions of dollars and actually put them in the donation box. We’d be living the dreams in tahiti
I was wondering why surfing wasn’t held on the beaches in the South of France, but it makes sense, if there are no major waves then there’s no real competition
I mean there are nice waves in south of France, some spots being top 10 in the world. Picking Tahiti was more of a political/publicity choice. Showing the multiples aspects of France and that it is much more diverse than just Paris
People say this and I've saw the competition for some time and it was just people hanging in the water for half and hour waiting for a good wave. Even in Tahiti they aren't pouring. I don't think that surf is the kind of sport that can last in the Olympics.
do you have any sources? I've been following the WSL competitions in Tahiti for years and never heard that the organization could damage the coral reef. Or maybe it's the way or scale that the Olympics are doing it that create the damage?
.... correlating the Olympics with environmental degradation is warranted. In this instance however, this comment WAY OFF the mark. There has been little to no infrastructure built for the surfing competitions. It's all off shore, and if anything, International recognition of this paradise will bring in more money and more ecological protection.
@@MachuDidgeridoo "Organizers for the 2024 Olympics replaced the wooden judging tower that was used for the 2018 Tahiti Pro surfing competition with a metal tower that caused some damage to the corals below during construction. A construction barge damaged the coral in December. Although the extent of the damage hasn’t been confirmed, footage emerged of broken corals after the barge got stuck at high tide." "This isn’t just about not damaging the reef, says Duarte. The International Olympic Committee committed to the Sports for Nature pledge, which means they should try to leave the reef healthier than it was before the competition." -National Geographic "The Olympics chose Tahiti for its famous waves-but some surfers aren't happy about it"
Unrelated, but I was excited when 2028 LA was announced, especially with surfing, since I knew they wouldn’t have to resort to taking the event offshore. With the trestles and Malibu, there’s plenty of great options around LA. But I just read that their event wiki page has it taking place at Venice and Santa Monica? Looks like Olympic surfing is in for another disappointment like Tokyo.
Personally this is how it should be. although strangely the coast of Portugal are known to have good surfing waves, but its best to take the competitors somewhere where the sport is at its full presentation
I remember watching the finals of the Tokyo Olympics...it was pretty good....messy...but easily head to slightly over head waves. I thought it was really fun to watch them perform in unpredictable waves. I wouldn't say it was underwhelming at all. There have been many CT stops that have been worse over the years.
Tahiti’s Teahupo’o (pronounced by surfers as Chop-pu) is one of the heaviest waves in the world. On a big day it is epic and very dangerous and surfers need to be appropriately skilled to tackle this beast. Hoping it is an epic swell and that we will witness and be blessed with some great surfing. One question, is tow in surfing even allowed in the Olympics?
Tahiti wasn’t discovered by Wallis, it was already mapped in 1500s Spanish maps, that the English later used to sail in the Pacific Ocean… But of course, if your only sources are English sources, then you are bounded to English propaganda.. The same goes for Australia’s eastern coast and the passage in the great barrier, with Cook using Torres’ journal and maps as well as other Spanish 16th century navigators’ materials to get through the Great Barrier Reef… The Pacific Ocean was known as the Spanish Lake from the early 16th to late 18th century, with all the islands being discovered, named and mapped by the Spanish.
As a lifelong surfer, i never understood how you can have a surfing "competition". Makes no sense to me and completely goes against everything surfing is about
I would say that surfing means different things to people in different places depending on its history there. In mainland US it’s more about an alternative lifestyle, in Polynesia more a pastime, and in many other places around world, just another sport.
No one is making you watch it . Life is about choices , people choose different things , paths . Life would be lame as fuck if everyone did the same shit .
@@ToddThurgood Hi. I wasn't complaining about watching it; I'm not sure what made you say that... In fact, I would like to watch it just to see how it's done! I was questioning the method of turning surfing into a competition because it is not a competitive activity...
Surprisingly, this is still not the farthest that a venue has been from the Olympic host city. The equestrian events for the 1956 Melbourne games were held in Stockholm Sweden due to Australia's quarantine restrictions for horses doe to hoof and mouth disease.
I'm not sure how else to describe it, but I feel like a lot of search party's videos feel incomplete. Not that they necessarily are, but that they feel that way when watching them. I think that the somewhat abrupt ending to a lot of them might be the cause. I feel like you should spend more time on the conclusion and have the video build to something, rather than it somewhat abruptly ending
Unpopular opinion, if your sport is so exclusive that only a handful of select spots in the world could potentially host a competition, then it shouldn't qualify as an olympic sport. Many winter sports are similar.
@@suh-guy funnily enough, there is a polemic in France at the moment about well established professional sports (such as football, golf, etc...) that have a packed yearly schedule and cult following "stealing" the spotlights to lesser known disciplines that enjoy a boost every 4 years thanks to the focus they get during the Olympics.
10:30 “Tahiti is still part of France but isn’t always treated like it”. In recent decades, it is treated BETTER than mainland France if you count how much aid / subsidies and other tax revenues it receives from France vs how much it pays to France
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4:26-6:26 is the duration of the ad...nearly 20% of your video is an ad. Make longer content or shorter ad reads please.
@@degenb1290 honestly feel like ground news is owned in part buy this channel
@@degenb1290that also dosnt include the 2 ads that played during the video, this channel is honestly a waste of time
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Yesterday Gabriel Medina set the highest score in the Olympic surf, 9.9
And the thumbnail got adjusted rly quick to that insane picture :D
@@perseus7901 dude so good he walked on clouds
As a Polynesian (albeit Samoan), I am delightfully surprised that you included the truth of the Pacific’s colonial history and the troubles of the Maohi. I also appreciate it was from such an objective lens.
Even the first people of a region went to battle with their neighbors and took land and resources, its literally no different than any nation on earth, thats how countries are formed.
this is the kind of information not covered in French/English history. All we are told about places like this are that certain groups ‘fought for us i ww2’
Man you're killing it with these Olympic stories. So good!
8:25 I thought they conducted two or three tests, but 193 nuclear tests in the middle of a tropical archipelago paradise?!? 🤮
classic homo sapien move
Wouldn't be surprised if they did more super secret stuff back then & beyond 1996. France has a good image but people don't realise the current level of colonialism they still practise & that their secret intelligence agencies are right up there with the CIA when it comes to global operations kept secret. Deffo got more skeletons in the closest not just in Africa but their countless super remote overseas territories.
The west has a lot to answer for regarding nuclear testing in the Pacific. Just look at what the US did to the Marshall Islands for example.
@@bmac4 Definitely, and who knows exactly the extent of the damage from all these nuclear tests. 😵
Yep, some of the tests were recorded on the other side of the world.
So I struggle with this channel, not being a sports fan. But this is one of those videos that really brings sports closer to what I understand and that’s why I love supporting this channel in the end. Sometimes you make something rather unrelatable to me make total sense and be fascinating. Thank you!!!
Same. I’ve no interest in sports generally, but I love learning how they connect back to the important stuff that I actually do find interesting 👌
You bring up a good point. Why are so many of their videos lately about sports? It's not a hard rule for the channel.
I also struggle with this channels focus on sports.
@@Harabeck "Search Party is a new independent video journalism project that will investigate and decode the most important and complicated news around geopolitics and global SPORTS."
I like sports and i dont care who knows
Fantastic work from Search Party team!
thanks for the fresh beatz
@@Search-Partyglazer
@@Search-Partycringe
T.A.H.I.T.I. it a magical place...
Agent Coulson deep cut, I approve
Was on my mind the entire episode.
Hell yeah
Coulson lives! 😂
This is what I kept thinking abt omg
My brain is so fried once I heard “Tahiti” I instantly thought of Red Dead Redemption
Your brain's got a plan!
Lol.. Same here.
Have some godamn faith!
Tahiti? More like guarma!
I coughed on reflex as I read this. Unexpected comment.
I think Surfing will be one of those sports that leaves and reappears every couples of Olympics depending on where it’s hosted. Kinda like how Baseball & Softball come and go depending on if it’s popular in the host country. It was featured in Tokyo 2020 but not included this year, but will make a comeback in 4 year in LA 2028. Surfing is only really good if you can get waves like they get in Tahiti. I haven’t paid attention to the surfing events during this Olympics but now that I see the waves, oh my God, now I just have to watch!
yesterday the waves were simply outstanding. In Tokyo they were really bad though. It's really hard to schedule such an event that depends on the nature
2028 should have some amazing perfect surfing in Huntington Beach and LA could have some of the best Skateboarding Using Woodward Skate parks outdoor but also use more main indoor if needed for some reason like smog, very high heat in temps, or very unlikely rain. Could even use one of the several Nike parks or the main Vans park as well.
I love adding the history, and not only sticking to the sports side
“Most dangerous Olympic game ever” didn’t they have pistol Dueling in 1906 😂 LOVE the channel keep up the great videos!
Wax Bullets and lots of padding more then an NFL/CFL player wore in 1990's to 2000's.
As a surfer and a journalist, thanks for doing the sport some justice. Non-endemic reporting on surfing, even by big outlets, is generally pretty cringe, but this showed you'd done your homework. Great to get a new perspective on a location and a wave I'm so familiar with. Thanks again Sam and the SP team
Love your continued focus on sports stories and how they interact with the rest of the world 🤘
This is the only place on the internet to get this. Thank you.
Great piece as ever Sam. Just for infographic accuracy though, low pressure systems spin in a clockwise (cyclonic) direction in the Southern Hemisphere, hence the very low pressure systems with sustained strong wind are referred to as cyclones in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean
I am enjoying this and all your other videos. Hopefully you can find a way to longer stories!
I have no idea who you are or why you came across as a recommended video but you’re wearing a hockey shirt and that deserves a sub!
go caps
Thank you for telling the true story of the history of Tahiti & France. It's really appreciated.
europeans weren't ignoring the fact that there were people there, they were ignoring the fact that they were actually people
Except the waves on the day of the finals were terrible or even non-existent during some heats, which hurt some athlete's performances. I know we can't control nature, but the lack of waves during the finals was hurtful to watch
The picture of the surfers at the opening ceremony at the beach was so cuuuuute
One of my favorite channels! Always something interesting and informative.
I just say news saying that the surfing in Tahiti has been postponed due to its weather and i wanted to search why is it in Tahiti in google. Subconsciously i clicked RUclips instead of chrome and boom the first video in recommendations is this. Wow amazing!
Love this channel, because it follows a format I enjoy usually for geopolitics, but for sports
Everytime one of these videos gets posted I drop everything and watch it. So well made and so interesting. 🙌🏼
Cool info graphics doesn't mean fact
Just want to say your channel is perfect for what I’m interested in. Honestly can’t remember how but heard of the channel being a thing and subbed right away, yours plus howtown are just banger channels right now
Howtown is just getting started ... love them
I think it's good for Tahiti to hold these games as it brings more importance to overseas territories rather than mainland France. This is something that I find important for us french to treat everyone as equal, wheter you live in mainland France or 15000km away. On top of that, vast majority of local people from those territories are proud to be french so why not.
Habe you seen what's happened in New Caledonia? It may be indeed be a majority of residents but not a 'vast majority '
New Caledonia is very specific and only a little minority among all the french overseas territories, so clearly a "vast majority" is the best term you could use
@@paulbiologistyes, we see. We also see that they voted in 2021 for their independenceand 96.5% decided to remain french. Like every countries we have our problems, and more support should be offered to our compatriots in the overseas territories.
However, constantly denying that the democratic process of auto determination did indeed happen, and rejecting its result because it doesn't go in the direction of post colonialism that some expect is a slippery slope.
You cannot ask people to choose and then criticise their choice when their voice is different than what you expect.
Great job updating the thumbnail! One of the best photos ever!
Sam your content is as informative as always. Always love seeing Sam and his blue eyes 😍
Loving these sports stories. Love how you link it to a wider political, economical and/or historical context. Would be happy for you to do 2 sport for every 1 geo-pol vid. But, they're all great! Keep the content coming
I've been a huge sports fan all my life and find beauty in it, especially since sports is a form of art that imitates life. More recently, I've understood why I feel this way by binging your content. Love your channel, keep up the good work! ❤️
Longer videos please!! Love the channel!
Brother the soundtrack at 1:18 🔥
Just a quick fact check. After local Vernaudon on 85, it was actually bodyboarders Mike Stewart and Ben Severson who were the first foreigners who pioneered this wave into the world map. The wave was mostly kept underground for locals and some hardcore bodyboarders until the photo of the 2000.
FYI, your graphic of a storm is a northern hemisphere hurricane or typhoon rotating anti-clockwise. In the southern hemisphere, storms rotate clockwise.
Thanks for the awesome video, missed opportunity for a Surfshark sponsorship.Grateful to Ground News for the support though!
Very objective reporting.
I see that Caps shirt! Great videos and great taste in teams. Thanks again for your work!
go caps
That wave is a legend for a reason. There are maybe 3 that can come close. I can think of two maybes. Its on a level though you're just trying to survive. Exit stage right. Head high is tough, try doing something cool while falling off of a 10 story building thats chasing you and trying to smash you into a pile of rocks.
Nice video!
Placing those waves SFX was a true joy
Incredible video!!!
Interesting stories 😮 keep it up Search Party 🎊 good job Dylan 🥳🥳
Great job as usual 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Great work
“I didn’t realize he signed it. You can ignore that.”
Just casually ignoring an autograph lol
Thanks man. This was good.
I think you covered this history with a lot of respect and care, not common at all with Pacific history
Tahiti makatea reminds me of the movie six days seven nights .
Good work search party as always tho
Your Search Party intro is so satisfying omg
Oh tahiti the land of dreams. If only Arthur wasn’t hoarding his millions of dollars and actually put them in the donation box. We’d be living the dreams in tahiti
I was wondering why surfing wasn’t held on the beaches in the South of France, but it makes sense, if there are no major waves then there’s no real competition
I mean there are nice waves in south of France, some spots being top 10 in the world. Picking Tahiti was more of a political/publicity choice. Showing the multiples aspects of France and that it is much more diverse than just Paris
Very good video! Although it could have a bit more info (maybe more 3/5min)
People say this and I've saw the competition for some time and it was just people hanging in the water for half and hour waiting for a good wave. Even in Tahiti they aren't pouring. I don't think that surf is the kind of sport that can last in the Olympics.
Love the channel, any plans to make a hockey video?
Ground news looks so cool !!
I think there isn’t enough attention on global scale about how much coral reef and marine life is being destroyed there as part of organizing this
do you have any sources? I've been following the WSL competitions in Tahiti for years and never heard that the organization could damage the coral reef. Or maybe it's the way or scale that the Olympics are doing it that create the damage?
.... correlating the Olympics with environmental degradation is warranted. In this instance however, this comment WAY OFF the mark. There has been little to no infrastructure built for the surfing competitions. It's all off shore, and if anything, International recognition of this paradise will bring in more money and more ecological protection.
@@MachuDidgeridoo "Organizers for the 2024 Olympics replaced the wooden judging tower that was used for the 2018 Tahiti Pro surfing competition with a metal tower that caused some damage to the corals below during construction. A construction barge damaged the coral in December. Although the extent of the damage hasn’t been confirmed, footage emerged of broken corals after the barge got stuck at high tide."
"This isn’t just about not damaging the reef, says Duarte. The International Olympic Committee committed to the Sports for Nature pledge, which means they should try to leave the reef healthier than it was before the competition."
-National Geographic "The Olympics chose Tahiti for its famous waves-but some surfers aren't happy about it"
Unrelated, but I was excited when 2028 LA was announced, especially with surfing, since I knew they wouldn’t have to resort to taking the event offshore. With the trestles and Malibu, there’s plenty of great options around LA. But I just read that their event wiki page has it taking place at Venice and Santa Monica? Looks like Olympic surfing is in for another disappointment like Tokyo.
Personally this is how it should be. although strangely the coast of Portugal are known to have good surfing waves, but its best to take the competitors somewhere where the sport is at its full presentation
i love surfing, glad its gotton recognition on here
So impressive ❤
I remember watching the finals of the Tokyo Olympics...it was pretty good....messy...but easily head to slightly over head waves. I thought it was really fun to watch them perform in unpredictable waves. I wouldn't say it was underwhelming at all. There have been many CT stops that have been worse over the years.
Tahiti’s Teahupo’o (pronounced by surfers as Chop-pu) is one of the heaviest waves in the world. On a big day it is epic and very dangerous and surfers need to be appropriately skilled to tackle this beast. Hoping it is an epic swell and that we will witness and be blessed with some great surfing. One question, is tow in surfing even allowed in the Olympics?
This should be done for all Olympic games
Why freaking RUclips algorithm shows it to me 12 days after I needed it to see?
Fascinating.
Tahiti is a French Overseas Collectivity located 15,000 Kilometers from Metropolitan France 😊😊
Dutch Van Der Linde knows a lot about it
@@llachlanhd09 Yeah 😊😊
Tahiti wasn’t discovered by Wallis, it was already mapped in 1500s Spanish maps, that the English later used to sail in the Pacific Ocean…
But of course, if your only sources are English sources, then you are bounded to English propaganda..
The same goes for Australia’s eastern coast and the passage in the great barrier, with Cook using Torres’ journal and maps as well as other Spanish 16th century navigators’ materials to get through the Great Barrier Reef…
The Pacific Ocean was known as the Spanish Lake from the early 16th to late 18th century, with all the islands being discovered, named and mapped by the Spanish.
TIL. Thanks.
Absurd to think when the French city of Nice, arguably the world's Capital for surfing, is so close!
Nice is in the Mediterranean has no waves. Maybe you meant the Atlantic, west coast of France? Lacanau, Hossegor etc.?
@@jg-reis i think he was just referring to the french comedy movie "Brice of Nice", so its just a joke 😉
@@tonmacka5382 I had no idea - thanks for the tip!
As a French person, thank you for explaining to others and scrapping the surface of what makes France this beautiful but also complex.
Been there. It’s ehh
Yall fucked yourselves by joining the EU.
French Empire
Imagine having colonies in the year 2024. Y'all wack at best.
@@SantiagoAntonutti
Look at the USA. Under French system, all of them are French.
Just one more score to get to Tahiti!!
That's a wild wave for the Olympics. My dad has ridden that wave quite a few times and has the scars to show for it lol
"Author i have a plan" Dutch 😂
arthur not author he isnt writing a book lol
Please do a video on the six nations when you’re making sport context again next year
There should be a medal for surviving such waves
As a lifelong surfer, i never understood how you can have a surfing "competition". Makes no sense to me and completely goes against everything surfing is about
I would say that surfing means different things to people in different places depending on its history there. In mainland US it’s more about an alternative lifestyle, in Polynesia more a pastime, and in many other places around world, just another sport.
Let them compete if they want lol
@@toxicyasuo2897 How? That's what I mean. How can one turn surfing into a competition?? Every wave is different..!
No one is making you watch it . Life is about choices , people choose different things , paths . Life would be lame as fuck if everyone did the same shit .
@@ToddThurgood Hi. I wasn't complaining about watching it; I'm not sure what made you say that... In fact, I would like to watch it just to see how it's done! I was questioning the method of turning surfing into a competition because it is not a competitive activity...
Surprisingly, this is still not the farthest that a venue has been from the Olympic host city. The equestrian events for the 1956 Melbourne games were held in Stockholm Sweden due to Australia's quarantine restrictions for horses doe to hoof and mouth disease.
I was wrong about this. Paris to Tahiti is 200 km farther
Thank you! 😀
It is a magical place
interesting, thanks
Yes to La France Outre-Mer Discourse! 👏🏽
I'm not sure how else to describe it, but I feel like a lot of search party's videos feel incomplete. Not that they necessarily are, but that they feel that way when watching them. I think that the somewhat abrupt ending to a lot of them might be the cause. I feel like you should spend more time on the conclusion and have the video build to something, rather than it somewhat abruptly ending
Think of them as a prompt for you to do further research on the topics.
This vid should be sent to the Olympic committee.
For what
The Ocean Gods are blessing the surfers (girls and boys) with theyre kisses...amazing waves so far
Great vid. From Aus
It’s a magical place
This was Dutch's doing
thank u samuel
Unpopular opinion, if your sport is so exclusive that only a handful of select spots in the world could potentially host a competition, then it shouldn't qualify as an olympic sport. Many winter sports are similar.
Golf?
@@suh-guy funnily enough, there is a polemic in France at the moment about well established professional sports (such as football, golf, etc...) that have a packed yearly schedule and cult following "stealing" the spotlights to lesser known disciplines that enjoy a boost every 4 years thanks to the focus they get during the Olympics.
When you have to pick between watching the new search party upload and watching your country compete in the Olympics
10:30 “Tahiti is still part of France but isn’t always treated like it”. In recent decades, it is treated BETTER than mainland France if you count how much aid / subsidies and other tax revenues it receives from France vs how much it pays to France
Gabriel Medina even giving an iconic levitating moment , A Best Winning Moment
I think there are some historical inaccuracies in the video, but otherwise I thought was very good and entertaining
Portugal needs to host the Olympics because...you know
Waves will not be small!
Big waves and an even bigger deficit - but the Portuguese themselves might not make big (political) waves. So in a dystopian future it may happen.
What a fantastic shirt! Go caps!!!
The French : "I have a plan Dutch !"
Love the shirt. Ovi celebrating in the fountain is one of the best Stanley Cup memories around
The best weekend of my life
Nice thumbnail...capitalising on it pretty quickly after that photo went viral! 😂
So what is LA going to do? Malibu, HB, Rincon all close good spots but why not be like France and move it to Pipeline far away.
Unfortunately they’ve already decided on two of the lamest wave spots: Santa Monica and Venice. 🤷♂️
@@OriginalGrasshopper what no way, its a choppy 2' shore break.