TEAHUPOO, France (AFP) – Elite women surfers returned to competition at “the world’s heaviest wave” in Tahiti on Wednesday, ending a 16-year absence and taste of the daunting challenge at the 2024 Paris Olympics. For the first time since 2006, members of the women’s World Surf League are competing in Teahupo’o, a wave respected and feared by boardriders worldwide. Flanked by verdant cloud-touched volcanoes, Teahupo’o looks like a tropical idyl. But a short distance […]