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It took ISA President Fernando Aguerre 27 years to get surfing included in the Olympic Games.

15.000: Number of times you were told you were crazy for wanting to do that

1995: The year in which he met in Lausanne with Juan Antonio Samaranch, the Spaniard who was president of an International Olympic Committee very different from that of today. The Olympics were in Sydney in 2000 and it did not look good and did not look good.

1996: When he made the biggest World Surfing Games in history, with three podiums, kneeboard, bodyboard, longboard, juniors, etc. He said more than once that that event in Huntington Beach took a good part of his hair.

2016: The year in which it was confirmed that surfing would be included in the Olympic Games, at the IOC session prior to the start of the Tokyo Olympics.

$100: Approximate price of a bottle of Veuve Clicquot, the champagne that was drunk at the private celebration held by a friend of Aguerre in an exclusive neighborhood of the Cidade Maravilhosa.

40: Number of surfers competing in Tokyo 2020, 20 women and 20 men

18: This is the number of countries represented: Brazil (4), United States (4), Australia (4), France (4), Italy (1), Japan (4), Germany (1), Peru (4), Chile (1), Morocco (1), Portugal (3), New Zealand (2), Indonesia (1), Argentina (1), Costa Rica (2), South Africa (1), Israel (1) and Ecuador (1).

9 are Latin American: Miguel Tudela, Lucca Mesinas, Daniella Rosas and Sofía Mulanovich from Peru, Manuel Selma from Chile, Leandro Usuna from Argentina, Leilani McGonagle and Brisa Hennessy from Costa Rica and Dominic Barona from Ecuador.

5: Number of surfers in the same heat will compete in round 2 and there will be a priority system for five surfers.

4: Number of surfers competing in round 1.

2: Number of surfers competing in the rest of the series.

30 minutes is the approximate duration of the series and may vary depending on the forecast and the determination of competition days.

46: Number of series to be contested per men's and women's event, 23 per gender. Five for round 1, two for round 2, eight for round 3, four for quarterfinals, two for semi-finals, one for the bronze medal fight and one for the grand final.

48: Number of surfers who will compete in Paris 2024. The ISA asked the organizing committee to make the format more user-friendly and the response was positive.

1,5 hours: The round trip time for each Olympic surfer to get to and from the Village to the beach.