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Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 will be held on natural waves.

  

Today there are more and more options around the world to surf on the famous artificial waves, from European, American, Chinese companies to the technology of the ranch of the world-renowned surfer Kelly Slater, there are options that tempt to revolutionize the board sport.

Surfing has recently made headlines worldwide due to its inclusion as a discipline in the Olympic Games. Consequently, major wave pool manufacturers have essentially been engaged in a battle to be considered for the Games, which were initially thought to be competitions with artificial waves. However, the organizing committee rejected this option and confirmed the discipline in the ocean.

The companies' million-dollar dream and large-scale media coup continued and set their sights on Paris 2024, where the organizing committee of the Olympic Games once again closed the door on the hypothesis of a surfing event organized on artificial waves.

Looking further ahead and deducing that Los Angeles 2028, with its state of California, where surfing is the official sporting activity, will also feature board sports as an Olympic discipline, the organization has already ruled out the option of holding it in swimming pools.

The struggle continues among large companies seeking to perfect their products and offer the best price to be competitive, and if at some point the use of this modality were deemed appropriate, to be able to fight to be in charge of manufacturing the first Olympic wave pool.

One thing is certain: surfing is an incomparable sport of contact with nature, and it is unlikely that any technology can match this feeling.

Written by: Enrique Hernández - Surfing Republic