LONDON: Surfing has waited more than a century to make its Olympics debut and the postponement of this year's Tokyo Games means it will be another 16 months or so before Fernando Aguerre's vision finally becomes a reality.
"The IOC were trying to find extra time to come up with the right decision and those four weeks they hoped to have suddenly disappeared, they evaporated. "Listen, as a surfer, you learn that the waves come when they want to come, not when you want," Aguerre, president of the ISA since 1995, said."We were ready for 2020. We are ready for 2021. People contacted me today expressing condolences, and I said 'hey, it's okay, an extra year won't be anything bad.
While the postponement of the Games has been a blow for athletes, Aguerre used the example of Duke Kahanamoku, the father of modern surfing, who won gold in the 100m freestyle swimming at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics but could not defend his title in 1916 because of the First World War.
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