LONDON (Reuters) - 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.
Excitement had been growing for the maiden Olympic surf competition, first mooted as far back as 1912, but with the world in the grip of a deadly coronavirus pandemic, International Surfing Association (ISA) president Aguerre got the news he was expecting on Tuesday.
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