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The greatest surfer in history, Kelly Slater, has his eyes set on Paris, he reported in an interview with the current affairs magazine InsideHook“If I can qualify, I think I have a chance of winning the Olympics in 2024. And I would be 52, so I would be one of the oldest Olympians at those games,” he said.

In the note in which they begin talking about the launch of its new Swiss watch brand Breitling which sells for 4900 dollarsThe journalist asks him about his plans to retire and he answers that although he thought about leaving it all behind this year, staying on the tour is what keeps him in shape and immediately refers to Paris 2024: “I wanted to make the Olympic team last time but I failed and there is a slightly different process this time, I would be lying if I said it wasn't on my mind.”

She explains that since the venue is Teahupoo and she has won several events there, “it would be great to get into the team.” “I honestly think that qualifying for me is potentially more difficult than winning the Olympics,” she adds.

The best in history also said that he will have from September to January to decide whether to continue competing or not.

According to what the ISA announced in May, the winning teams of the 2022 and 2024 World Surfing Games will be able to bring one extra male and one female athlete. That is, there will be countries that will have more than two men and two women competing, unlike what happened in Tokyo, when it was a maximum of two and two.