Tahiti’s Teahupo’o (pronounced Chop-pu) is one of the heaviest waves in the world. Nestled on the southwest corner of Tahiti’s smaller dormant volcano, Tahiti Iti, Teahupo’o is a small and quiet ...

Teahupo’o, Tahiti is one of the surf world’s heaviest waves. It’s a lefthand slab, with waves funneling in from deepwater, then exploding over extremely shallow reef, with a channel on the side that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teahupo’o was very, very big, and Tim Bonython was there with his camera in hand to document the madness. Photo: Tim Bonython ...

Take a look back at the history of how the most infamous wave in the world came into the spotlight and how famous the World Tour event held there today almost never existed. Tahiti's Teahupo’o ...

Tom Lowe has broken his silence following a near-drowning in Tahiti. The British-born big charger surfer was surfing Chopes last Thursday, when he took off on a wave, got clamped by the foamball, and ...

Jerome Brouillet will forever be associated with one image: the viral kickout of Gabriel Medina at Teahupo’o during the 2024 Paris Olympics. But the Tahiti-based photographer has a deep portfolio of ...

Surf's up for the 2024 Olympics. And while the vast majority of events will take place on the French mainland, there's one sport that will have a special site of its own, nearly 10,000 miles away: ...

As the Olympics get going in earnest this week, not everyone's attention is focused on the host city, Paris. Surf fans are heading to Tahiti, which is half a world away in French Polynesia. Why? Well, ...

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The Olympic surfing competition will take place in Teahupo’o on the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia. The village annually hosts the Billabong Pro Tahiti surf competition as part of the ...

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