Three rounds into the Tokyo Olympic surfing competition, Japan's Kanoa Igarashi appears to be a man on a mission.Familiar with the Olympic waves of Tsurigasaki Beach in Ichinomiya, Chiba, where his father Tsutomu surfed back in the 1980s and Kanoa himself as a boy, the 23-year-old has a chance to eclipse all his past accolades by topping the Olympic podium under the flag of his parent's home nation."That first wave was really special. I woke up with a lot of pressure, (there's) four years leading up to this first wave. But as soon as I got that first wave, it kind of all just melted away an…READ FULL ARTICLE
