They call it the End of the Road, but truth is Teahupo’o is the Beginning. It’s where the great Pacific southwest swells first feel land on their long journey across the ocean. Today, Sunday April 30, ...

The surf at the Tokyo Olympics was unremarkable at best, with conditions that could be described as unpredictable slosh. It was nearly impossible for competitors to show the kind of awe-inspiring ...

TEAHUPO'O, French Polynesia — Peva Levy said he felt a powerful, natural energy known as “mana” when he surfed Teahupo'o’s waves on a piece of plywood for the first time, rushing down a crumbling ...

For many of the competitors—and the 1,400-odd residents of the wave’s namesake village—this year’s contest is a dress rehearsal for an event with a far larger global profile in a few months’ time.

In French Polynesia, waves are revered and feared at the legendary surf break off the village of Teahupoo. A swimmer navigates the water near Teahupoo’s famed surf break, which sits just a few feet ...

The best surfers dream of waves that are almost, but not quite, unsurfable. The glorious and notorious Teahupo’o can be that kind of wave, thundering just off the coast of Tahiti in French Polynesia.

PARIS, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Paris 2024 organisers are confident a solution will be found quickly for the construction of a judging tower that will allow them to finalise plans for the surfing competition ...

Oct 27 (Reuters) - Residents of the tiny Tahitian village of Teahupo'o say they are considering more protests to stop Olympic organisers building a three-story aluminium tower on a reef where the ...

Preparing to deploy pressure transducers at Teahupoo, Tahiti. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 28 February 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.L.