Dreams Die First Leilani McGonagle, Team Costa Rica. Photo: ISA/Pablo Jimenez Nick Carroll Link copied to clipboard Well, I had a dream. My dream was that some young maniac from Costa Rica or Indo would charge forth in Japan and storm the Citadel — blow away all the CT stars who’ve managed to smuggle themselves under various guises into the Olympics. Teach those superheroes a lesson, and cover their grommet selves in glory in the process. To me it just seemed the finest of all possible results from this first appearance of surfing in the Olympic Games…proof that competitive surfing, in this environment at least, might still be an open door. Duke Kahanamoku had been an outsider at the Stockholm Games in 1912, and he won. Why not now, in 2021?