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AUBURN — With just a few weeks until actors were set to take to the stage in performances of “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” last December, Excelsior Arts Academy and Youth Theater Executive Director Kent Johnson was forced to cancel the show. Cases of COVID-19 were on the rise, and while the First Christian Church in Auburn was the perfect setting to tell the Christmas story, there was not the room needed for the cast to socially distance backstage, Johnson explained. “This was one of the most difficult decisions I ever had to make. As you might guess, many people were ...

What is the competition format? A total of 40 athletes (20 men and 20 women) will compete, broken down into multiple rounds, eventually leading to gold and bronze medal finals. The initial rounds will have four and five-person heats, and the main rounds (round 3 onwards) will have two-person heats, where the winner advances to the next round and the loser is eliminated.  The top two surfers from each heat in round 1 will advance directly to round 3. The bottom two surfers will move onto round 2, which acts as essentially as a 'repechage’ or ‘second chance’ round. The top three surfers...

has lived and surfed in San Diego since 2012. He lives in Clairemont. Sports are so ubiquitous in human life that it would almost seem natural to eventually include surfing in the Olympics. Like other sports, there are contests, points, a final and a winner. But surfing separates itself from the rest in that it requires cooperation from Mother Nature, who plays by her own set of rules. Add in subjective judging, and you get the imperfect sport of competition surfing. Understandably, it rarely does what it sets out to do, which is to determine the best surfer. Surfing’s debut in the Tokyo O...

Surf Surf Todo lo que necesitas saber para seguir la competición de surf en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020. La sede, las fechas, los favoritos y las medallas. Por   Del 25 de julio al 1 de agosto, aunque la intención es que dure cuatro días, con un margen de tres más por si faltasen condiciones en las olas. En la playa de Tsurigasaki, en el departamento de Chiba y a 92 kilómetros de Tokio. No asegura grandes olas, pero allí se han organizado eventos internacionales, y es la playa por excelencia del surf japonés. En qué consiste el deporte y la competición

We caught up with the 21-year-old ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Games.