Kauli Vaast has won gold in the men’s surfing competition in his native Tahiti, on the famed Teahupo’o waves. Along with Johanne Defay’s bronze in the women’s final, the surfers won France’s first ever medals in the discipline that was introduced to the Olympics three years ago in Tokyo.
Winning on the wave he grew up surfing was "the cherry on the cake", said Vaast, who grew up in Teahupo’o. "For all of France, for all of Polynesia it's incredible."
