Located 9,750 miles from Paris, Teahupo’o was primarily chosen for its high likelihood of scoring good waves during summer ... the 2024 event in Tahiti should be a fireworks show.

“It took me such a long time because we don't have longboard waves in Tahiti,” Vai said. “So the waves would be super heavy and fast, not really like the waves that you're looking for to ...

Travelers can head to several surf spots on the island: Papara, Papenoo and Taapuna are for the beginner to intermediate crowd, while Teahupoo (on Tahiti's southwestern coast) is for experts only.

First up, Tereva David of Tahiti, widely respected as one of the wisdom keepers of the world’s heaviest wave, Teahupo’o. To surf in Tahiti is to experience surfing unlike almost anywhere else.

After winning The Tahiti Pro in August as a wildcard ... way my first WCT win (as a wildcard) at Teahupoo in some of the biggest and most perfect waves I ever surfed in a contest.” ...

"Hosting the Olympics at Teahupo'o is the best spot they could ever pick just because it's such a good wave at that time of the year," said local Vahine Fierro, who won the Tahiti Pro in pumping waves ...

FILE PHOTO: Surfer Kelly Slater of the U.S rides a wave during the third round of competition in the Billabong Pro surfing tournament on the legendary reef break in Teahupoo, Tahiti, May 14 ...