When it comes to race, the modern history of surfing is relatively whitewashed. (Forgive the pun.) And while things have progressed massively since, say, the 1960s – with Brazil as the dominant ...

The surfing competition for the Paris 2024 Olympics will not be staged at any of France’s famous mainland surf spots. Not at Biarritz or Anglet or even the thumping sand-bottom beach break at Hossegor ...

Surfers and bodyboarders attempt a freakish below-sea-level slab in French Polynesia.

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, ...

More details of the much-anticipated wave pool in Palm Desert are released ahead of the opening as final touches are underway ...

Poised on a surfboard and dwarfed by a tower of water some 10 times her size, fear is one of the first emotions that big wave surfer Laura Crane feels before she hurtles down a 60-foot behemoth. “From ...

Abu Dhabi has many of the things that surfers hunt for in their quest for perfect waves: warm weather, year-round sun and clear water. The only thing it did not have was waves. That changed in October ...

Ever since Polynesian pioneers took to the ocean on wooden rafts, people have been hooked on riding waves. Today, surfing is one of the world’s fastest-growing sports and one of the latest additions ...

The growing business of surf pools wants to bring the ocean experience inland. But with many planned for areas facing water scarcity, who bears the cost? For nearly as long as surfing has existed, ...

The world’s “heaviest wave” is born near the South Pole, where fierce storms pound the ocean’s surface like angry fists, sending pulses of energy racing north, unimpeded, for thousands of miles. That ...