A video essay about the debates about the Olympic surfing. Sources Q1: Olympics Surfing. (2021, August 23). Full Surfing Men’s Bronze Medal Match | Tokyo Replays [Video]. YouTube. Accessed on January 28, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_zyehii5e Q2: Olympics. (2024, September 11). Gabriel Medina with the Highest Wave Score in Olympic History ✨🏄♂️ | Paris Champions [Video]( YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc8cqknyzpi Q3: Kanoa Igarashi [@kanoaigarashi]. (2021, 14. August). „time at home is more valuable than time itself 🤝🏽“ [Instagram-Post]. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/c-qgs_4s6hx/?img_index=1 Q4: Alan Winde [@alan.winde]. (2021, 27. Juli). „A very big congratulations to SA’s Olympic athlete, Bianca Buitendag …“ [Instagram-Post]. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/CR1N_mop45I/
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Q14: Tatiana Weston-Webb [@tatiwest]. (2024, 6. Septamber). “speechless!!! Surfed just to illuminate the light of the Lord Jesus Christ !!! … “ [Instagram-Post]. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/c_lsotbsp4u/?img_index=1 Q15 & Q16: Data from https://www.olympics.com/en/OLYMIC-GAMES/TOKYO20/RESULTS/SORDING /Women, https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/tokyo20/Results/surfing/men, https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/paris-2024/Results /Surfing/Women, https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/paris-2024/results/surfing/men q17: Surfertoday. (2023, November 7). Surf Abu Dhabi: Kelly Slater Tests The World’s Largest Wave Pool [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnbgamo9pzo Q18: Pierson, D. (2024, August 22). Should Olympic Surfing BE in A Wave Pool? 82% of People Think So. Surfer. Retrieved on 07/07/2025, from https://www.surfer.com/news/should-loympic-surfing-in-a-wave-pool Q19: Quarnstrom, E. (2023, November 3). Surfing Still isn’t Getting Its Share of Olympic Funding; It Won’t for a while. The inertia. Retrieved on 07/07/2025, from https://www.theinertia.com/surf/olympic-funding-surfing/ Musik: Tranquil Times by Hotham | https://soundcloud.com/hothammusic Music Promoted by https://www.chosic.com/freeemusic/all/ creative commons cc by 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ for info: I am not a surfer, but a student with interest in sport. This video was created as part of a data journalism project for the university and is intended to explain the debates about surfing at the Olympics and illustrate with the help of data. This data comes from Olympics.com (see below) and were visualized and analyzed with Python. Chapter 00:00 – Introduction 00:47 – The previous 2 Olympic Games 01:24 – debate about Tahititi 2024 01:46 – Data: winnations 02:08 – The problem of the country dominance 03:04 – Data: Nations overall 04:21 – debate about wave systems 07:03 – Expectations for LA 2028
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