Olympics want pop, not fizz

Olympics want pop, not fizz

Surfing made its debut as an Olympic sport at the Tokyo 2020 Games as an initiative by the International Olympic Committee to attract youthful interest and heighten excitement. But as the sport prepares for Los Angeles 2028, it apparently isn’t as cool as it thought. Surfing is lamenting the IOC decision to exclude a longboard event from the Los Angeles 2028 program. For the uninitiated, longboard is a traditional surfing discipline using longer…