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Why surfing is the sport of fearless women, movie stars and royalty

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2021 Summer Games in Tokyo next month as the sport makes its Olympic debut. Only 20 women from 17 countries will compete — with their entry determined by scores in past surfing events and each country limited to a max of two athletes.

Repping Team USA, after qualifying in 2019, are Honolulu native Carissa Moore, 28, and Caroline Marks, 19, from Boca Raton, Fla.

But fearless ladies around the world have paved the way for this moment, crushing 80-foot waves and challenging the male-dominated sport for hundreds of years.In “Women on Waves: A Cultural History of Surfing,” (Pegasus, out July 6) Jim Kempton, former editor-in-chief of Surfer magazine, puts the world of female surfers under a journalistic microscope, tracing the world’s oldest.

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