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Aug 6, 2024 · Kauli Vaast (FRA) and Caroline Marks (USA), two 22-year-olds born just twelve days apart, won surfing's second Olympic gold medals on a historic day at Teahupoo, French Polynesia's idyllic location for surfing in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Aug 6, 2024 · TEAHUPO’O, Tahiti (AP) — French Polynesian Kauli Vaast won the gold medal in men’s surfing while Caroline Marks from the United States won the women’s surfing gold medal on Monday at the Paris Olympics in Tahiti.
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- Asia Energy Transition Reporter
Aug 9, 2024 · In particular, local Tahitian and Team France gold medalist, Kauli Vaast. After his victory in Teahupo’o, beating Australian Jack Robinson on the final day of the competition window in head-high Tahitian tubes, Vaast jetted off to Paris to keep the celebrations going.
Aug 9, 2024 · France's newly-crowned Olympic surfing champion Kauli Vaast took a victory lap in Paris on Friday as he surfed down the River Seine with his gold medal around his neck.
Aug 6, 2024 · In the men’s competition, it was France’s Kauli Vaast — a Tahiti native — who won gold with just two waves in the final, beating Australia’s Jack Robinson. Brazil’s Gabriel Medina (who you may...
- Rachel Treisman
Aug 5, 2024 · First heat in the water on Finals Day of what has been long touted as surfing's real debut in the Olympics, 2x Pan American Gold Medal is Alonso Correa, from 2023 ISA Gold Medalists, Team Peru versus the local star surfing for Team France, Kauli Vaast, with the home-field advantage.
Aug 10, 2024 · Kauli Vaast is living the gold-medal life, and fittingly bringing surreal images to France. Competing a 10-minute drive from his birth place in French Polynesia, the 22-year-old from Vairao, Tahiti, won gold in men's surfing on Aug. 5.
