Olympics: Inaba advances as Igarashi, O'Leary are dumped from surfing

TEAHUPO'O, French Polynesia - Japan's Reo Inaba reached the quarterfinals of the Paris Olympic Games surfing competition in Tahiti on Monday, but his countrymen Kanoa Igarashi, the Tokyo Games silver medalist, and Connor O'Leary did not.The French Polynesian reef break of Teahupo'o delivered on its promise of huge swells, giving the surfers a great opportunity for deep barrels and high scores, but neither Inaba nor his opponent Filipe Toledo were able to find the waves they needed.Inaba totaled just 6.00 points in Round 3, with a best single-wave score of 3.17, but it was enough to beat his…READ FULL ARTICLE