Surfing hopes to ride wave of popularity into Tokyo Olympics

I've been a surfer for over 30 years and I really don't see why it should, or needs to be an Olympic sport at all. In fact, I'm against it.

It's going to be a very, very narrow field of athletes vying for medals - you can virtually guarantee right now that they will either be Australia, American or Brazilian. It's not inclusive enough.

I agree it would be a fun and welcome sport, but also agree that it would only work in limited venues, and as Tamarama said it would be a narrow field of candidates vying for medals. What's more, this would require a whole new park to be built when the budget and promises of Tokyo's "compact games" have already all been blown up.

Wave pools can make nice waves but are all pretty much identical.

One of the best things about "real surfing" is the unpredictability of waves and how each and every one is different and how every surfer rides them differently.

If they do have surfing at the 2020 Olympics, hold the comp. in Chiba, not Shonan. Waves are way more consistent and better in Chiba.

Surfing is an extreme Sport and should be in the Olympics. However the best waves are in Hawaii and it would not be that hard to have Hawaii be the location for the surfing events during the Tokyo Olympics how about that. R

I stay in Usami last summer and I check out the surf every day from june to the end of September and the biggest waves was under a meter. I would suggest a big push for climbing. The Japanese excel in this sport international.

Really. There are no good waves here. Surfing in Japan? Think I'd rather watch wet paint dry-