FILE PHOTO: Surfer John John Florence during a heat at the Billabong Pipe Masters at the Banzai Pipeline in Pupukea on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, U.S. December 18, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Thayer/
When Kelly Slater, surfing's greatest of all time, won his first Pipeline Master's contest in 1992, John John Florence was a newborn in diapers playing in the Hawaiian sand.
Now, with surfing's 2019 World Championship Tour (WCT) doubling as a qualifier for the sport's Olympics debut, an intriguing sub-plot is developing for the upcoming Pipeline contest in Hawaii: will the king of surfing or its prince ride the waves for gold in Tokyo?
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