American surfer Caroline Marks eyes the Pacific Ocean carefully before expertly catching a wave and launching into a routine of slashing turns and jumps, fine-tuning her tricks ahead of surfing's long-awaited Olympic debut on Sunday.
The campaign to have the sport included in the Games was going on long before the 19-year-old was born, and she and her fellow surfers are hoping for the big waves they need to showcase the best of their sport at Tsurigasaki Surf Beach.
"We've achieved a lot already, just being a part of the whole Olympic journey. For me, this is very exciting. I like the bigger names, the bigger comps, I feel it brings out the better surfer in me," the 31-year-old added. "It's huge. As soon as Fernando said that surfing was going to be in the Olympics, I knew I had a chance to qualify," athlete Manuel Selman told Reuters, referring to the president of the International Surfing Association, Fernando Aguerre.
Outside the Olympic cordon, the Saturday morning surf schools were in full swing with fledgling surfers of all ages paddling out a few metres before attempting to get up on their boards.
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