Kauli Vaast from French Polynesia and Caroline Marks from the United States won gold medals in surfing at the Paris Olympics in Tahiti on Monday.

Thickets of restrictions at the pandemic-hit Tokyo Games severely crimped the experience for Olympians.

The first Olympic gold medalist for surfing, Carissa Moore, is the only Native Hawaiian surfer at the Games.

In an extraordinary Olympic Games where mental health has been front and center, acts of kindness are everywhere.

Russian athlete Vladislav Larin won the gold medal in men’s 80-kilogram taekwondo with a 15-9 victory over Dejan Georgievski of North Macedonia in the final.

It was surf’s up for the sport’s century-in-the-making Olympic debut as competitors were consumed emotionally by the momentous occasion and exuded the pure joy of finally making it.

Surfing and sexism have a long history.

For some Native Hawaiians, surfing’s Olympic debut is both a celebration of a cultural touchstone invented by their ancestors, and an extension of the racial indignities seared into the history of the game and their homeland.