Locals Worried about Olympic Surfing Event in Tahiti — VOA Learning English
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The Summer Olympic Games this year are in Paris, France.
Paris does not have an ocean. So, how do organizers plan to present competition in the sport of surfing?
They are taking that Olympic event halfway around the world to the South Pacific country of French Polynesia. The athletes will compete on the island of Tahiti, in a small coastal village called Teahupo’o. The area is rural. It did not even have a road until the 1970s.
Hundreds of people are expected to visit Teahupo’o to watch the sport, as the surfers go out onto the famous waves from July 27 to August 4.
Peva Levy is a Tahitian surfer. He said the Teahupo’o beach was a “secret spot” when he first rode the waves there more than fifty…
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