359 - Lakey Peterson

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Quarantined in a Sydney hotel room, Lakey Peterson explains how she's adapting to the uncertainty of the '21 season, how she's prepped for 8' Teahupo'o, and why she's views Caroline Marks as the her biggest impediment to a world title and how she plans to beat her. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	After COVID forced the World Surf League's 2020 season hiatus, the organization reconvened in Hawaii in December of 2020 to launch the 2021 season with opening events
0:22.9	at Pipeline for the Men and Honolua Bay for the Women. Both of these events were the
0:27.0	final stop on previous years tours, but this Hawaii start reflected a 2019
0:33.2	announcement of a rejiggering of the tour schedule, one that included G-Land mid-season
0:39.5	and a finals day surf off for the world title where the top five ranked surfers from the year
0:45.1	would earn their spot to surf against one another in a single day event to decide the world champ.
0:51.6	By the time the tour kicked off in early December of 2020 in Hawaii, G-Land had mysteriously disappeared from the tour champ. By the time the tour kicked off in early December of 2020 in Hawaii,
0:55.2	G-Land had mysteriously disappeared from the tour schedule,
0:58.6	and the rest of the events were presumed to be tentative
1:01.6	due to the unpredictable nature of the pandemic.
1:05.1	After completing two days of women's competition at Honolua Bay,
1:08.9	tragedy struck in a free surf when a local surfer was
1:12.4	attacked and killed by a shark. The event went on indefinite hold and was eventually moved
1:18.6	to and completed at Pipeline, where Tyler Wright took the win in her return to competition
1:24.9	after a two-year injury slash illness hiatus.
1:29.5	The men's event completed with John John Florence securing his inaugural Pipemasters victory,
1:35.6	but perhaps what will be remembered most of this event is that the WSL's CEO, Eric Logan,
1:41.5	and a few other staffers tested positive for COVID-19, and the event was suspended for five days.
1:48.1	The event did resume and was completed, but shortly thereafter, it was announced that other upcoming surf events would be canceled.
1:55.3	This included the recently added championship tour event at Sunset Beach, the Vulcum Pipe Pro, and the DeHui backdoor
2:02.2	shootout. The next championship tour event in Santa Cruz was, quote, postponed, but has since
2:09.0	been canceled as well. How or if the Australian leg of the tour would proceed remained in
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