TEAHUPO’O, Tahiti (AP) — French Polynesian Kauli Vaast won the gold medal in men ... Roosters ran along the grass while young local surfers called the names of the athletes as they walked ...

Kauli Vaast is the Tahitian kid who's so confident when surfing at his homebreak of Teahupo'o that he once rode the tube switch in competition and put his name on the global surfing radar while ...