“People have had big falls and big injuries,” Moore said, talking about the wave. The reef break in Tahiti is one of the heaviest and biggest waves that the surfers face on Tour and will likely be substantially larger than what they saw at Tsurigasaki Beach, where surfing at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 went down. Picture by Buda Mendes/Getty Imagesįor the surfers, this year’s Games will be held on the infamous wave called Teahupo’o, also known as ‘The End of the Road’. Olympic champion Carissa Moore to step away from competitive surfing after Paris 2024įive-time WSL Champion Carissa Moore of Hawaii surfs during the semfinal of the Oi Rio Pro 2022 at Itauna Beach on Jin Saquarema, Brazil. “I’m not ready to pass on the baton just yet,” Moore told. She hasn't gone far from the ocean, though, as she plans to defend her title at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 and preparations for that are also in full swing. Now, and for the first time in 15 years, she is waking up, smelling the flowers (literally), and choosing what her day looks like.

Since 2010, the Hawaiian has spent up to nine months out of every year traveling and competing around the world, flying from Portugal to Australia to Brazil, to Tahiti, Fiji, South Africa, Hawaii and more, to go head-to-head against the world’s best. caught up with Moore in New York, four months after she announced her decision, to speak about what life has been like since she hung up that jersey for the time being. “I’m excited to see what else is out there, outside the jersey,” she told the New York Times as the news broke. As one of the greatest female surfers of all time, five-time world champion Carissa Moore shocked the world when she announced that she was taking a step back from the WSL Championship Tour (CT) earlier this year.

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