The Paris 2024 executive board just approved French Polynesia as the site for surfing in the 2024 Games. 
The official decision needs approval by the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee. They will meet early next year to continue the conversation.
​Organizers were emphatic that the 2024 Games were not going to be held in a wave pool. It is only a short 10,000-mile jaunt from the opening ceremonies to The End of the Road and the Tahitian “Wall of Skulls” will certainly be an upgrade compared to the Japanese beachbreak this July.

It is with heavy hearts that we say good bye to Robert “Bob” Burnside. A legend in the Los Angeles lifeguarding community.
Burnside passed away on December 11, 2019, at home in Utah. He was 87.
​Robert "Bob" Burnside was appointed the first president of the Surf Life Saving Association of America in 1964, which later became known as the United States Lifesaving Association. In 1965, he was appointed president of the National Surf Life Saving Association.
In 1967, he developed the revolutionary plastic “Burnside Rescue Can”, now a standard for lifeguards worldwide and iconic symbol of beach lifeguarding.
​He was a champion swimmer who introduced the Malibu balsa surfboard to Australia. He wrote the History of Junior Lifeguarding.