British surfer is still only 21 years old but is a formidable talent and fiercely determined to take her board to the Games
Britain’s Peony Knight is an athlete with her sights set on riding the crest of a wave when surfing makes it debut at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Yet intriguingly, her passion for the sport had its genesis in an altogether more prosaic form of transport. It all began on a bus.
Knight, who is one of the country’s best shots at making it to Shidashita beach next year, beams at what is clearly a very fond recollection. “When I was seven my parents took me and my siblings out of school for a year and we bought a bus in California,” she says. “I got my first surfboard on that trip on my eighth birthday in Mexico. We drove all the way down the coast. Through Mexico all the way to Costa Rica, we surfed all the way down the Pacific coast and then back up the other side to New York. I was completely hooked by the end of it.”
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