Podcast: Bianca Buitendag - the African surfer going to Tokyo 2020

About this episode

South Africa's Bianca Buitendag qualified for the Olympics as surfing makes its first appearance at the Games at Tokyo 2020. Bianca talks about the 'terrifying' world of professional surfing, coming back from family tragedy, and surfing in Japan.

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It's another exciting year of Olympics.com podcasts. We are looking forward to offering you another season of the best Olympic stories, with the Paris Games being the big highlight of 2024. The show will have great guests, the episodes will dig deep into the topic, the Olympics, Olympians, and sports. We’ll, of course, be truly global. Touching all 5 continents with our content. We’ll pay close attention to all the key events, updating stories and backstories on and off the field of play. It’ll be an all-encompassing conversation and we will signpost you to some of our outstanding original feature programming across all our Olympics.com platforms. So much to see, so much to enjoy. Be prepared to be entertained and inspired!