The current world champion Filipe Toledo is currently traveling to Tahiti to train for the Olympic Games as part of a camp organized by the Brazilian Surfing Confederation and the Brazilian Olympic Committee, reported the surfer's official website FT77.

According to reports, this will be “the first of Filipe’s training trips to Teahupoo” and will take place between May 15 and 21.

After announcing he would take a year off from the world tour following the Pipe stage, Toledo has been playing it cool at home in California, taking a trip to Mexico and also traveling to the pool in Waco, Texas, far from the heavy lefts where the Olympics are expected to be held.

Heavy lefts have been one of the biggest difficulties in Toledo's career, who has never been able to win either at Pipe or Teahupoo.

His father, Ricardo, said in an interview with a Brazilian podcast that “he is afraid of hitting the coral reef, that is the fear he has, of hitting himself there and really hurting himself and suffering an irreversible injury. It is something that stays in his head.”