Next year's Olympic surfing competition will be held on Tahiti's Teahupo'o beach as planned, the leader of French Polynesia said, declaring and end to a row between organisers, authorities and environmental groups who opposed the construction of a new judging tower that could threaten coral.
Polynesian leader Moetai Brotherson said that a meeting with environmental associations had yielded "a solution" that would allow the contest to be held at Teahupo'o, with one of the world's most powerful waves.
