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Key figures in the surf industry have launched a coalition to oppose U.S. Ski and Snowboard’s attempt to take control of the U.S. Olympic surf team. Surf legends Ian Cairns, Shaun Tomson, and Peter ...

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A welcome development in the long saga of USA Surfing, the US Ski Team has officially dropped its bid to govern surfing at LA28. We first reported on this long ago, with a strong op-ed on how US Ski ...

The L.A. Summer Olympics are less than three years away, but a related competition over which organization will oversee Olympic surfing is already heating up. San Clemente, which will host Olympic ...

The perfect, peeling waves just south of San Clemente, wedged between Orange County and San Diego, have long been a crown jewel of mainland America surfing – and now, Lower Trestles is set to be the ...

In a sport known for turf battles, SoCal surfing is facing perhaps its most epic turf challenge yet — all the way from the ski slopes of Utah. U.S. Ski and Snowboard, the Olympic organization for ...

Caitlin Simmers of Oceanside beat Caroline Marks of San Clemente to win the World Surf League championship held at Lower Trestles at San Onofre State Beach south of San Clemente in 2024. Lower ...