{"id":161400,"date":"2021-07-24T09:05:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T16:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=161400"},"modified":"2021-07-24T09:05:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T16:05:02","slug":"mystery-solved-how-will-the-olympics-guarantee-waves-for-surfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=161400","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Solved:  How will the Olympics guarantee waves for surfing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most Olympic events, the venue isn\u2019t a concern. You build the arena\/stadium\/track, and it\u2019s there waiting when you\u2019re ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>Surfing isn\u2019t like most Olympic events. The venue \u2014 ocean waves \u2014 can change from day to day, hour to hour. So how can the Olympics guarantee that surfing \u2014 which makes its Olympic debut at Tokyo \u2014 actually takes place during the Olympics?<\/p>\n<p>As with everything else involving Olympic events, the key is planning, years and years of planning. The International Surfing Association worked with Surfline, a weather forecasting site for surfing events, to analyze potential locales for the competition. Surfline monitors all ocean hotspots, tracking climate and wave trends from every possible angle.<\/p>\n<p>Where to surf?\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mystery-solved-how-will-the-surfing-event-at-the-olympics-guarantee-waves-062651907.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most Olympic events, the venue isn\u2019t a concern. You build the arena\/stadium\/track, and it\u2019s there waiting when you\u2019re ready to go. Surfing isn\u2019t like most Olympic events. The venue \u2014 ocean waves \u2014 can change from day to day, hour to hour. So how can the Olympics guarantee that surfing \u2014 which makes its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161402,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161400\/revisions\/161402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}