THE LONG WARM-UP: SURFING AND THE OLYMPICS – A PRINT MEDIA TIMELINE
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Surfing qualified to became an Olympic sport in 2016, and makes its Olympic Games debut this week. But getting there was a fraught decades-long process. Here is a brief look at some of the ups and downs, starts and stops along the way, as seen in surf magazine excerpts. Follow links, below, to full-text articles. * * * SURFER, September 1964 The superlative organization of the [1964 World Contes...
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