Team USA Olympics star on her battle with depression By Jake Nisse Published: 20:10 BST, 8 July 2024 | Updated: 20:13 BST, 8 July 2024 e-mail Advertisement When thousands of athletes attend the Olympic opening ceremony on July 26, surfer Carissa Moore will be among the unlucky few missing out. Close to 10,000 miles away from Paris, Moore will be in Tahiti - possibly enjoying a lower-key local parade - as she and her fellow competitors ready for action outside of the French mainland. 'Regardless,' she said, 'I'm getting dressed up.
' Surfing is not the only sport that will take place outside the confines of Paris this summer, as equestrian athletes compete in Versailles, football (in part) is held in Nice and field hockey is in the nearby suburb of Colombes. Still, it's hard to not feel a bit of sympathy for the five-time world champion and surfing icon Moore, who had a similarly isolated experience during the Tokyo Olympics. In 2021, she was stationed roughly two hours away from the Japanese capital in the town of Ichinomiya, and enjoyed a 'whole little [opening] ceremony' with the in-person celebrations broadcasted on TV.
And the best she can hope for this summer will be a similarly makeshift experience. 'I'm a little disappointed that we're so far away,' she said at Team USA 's media summit. 'I'm excited, obviously, to be in Tahiti and compete there.
'But to be so far away from everything - I haven't had the actual, like Olympic experience quite yet. And not that I'm getting.
