Kelly Slater
‘Feels like the end’: Emotional Slater ready to call time on surfing’s greatest career
The 11-time world champion struggled to compose himself as his exit from professional surfing looms, with a farewell at his favourite Fijian wave on the cards.
- by Dan Walsh
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Kelly Slater is 52 with a baby on the way and a dead man holding his hip together
The greatest surfer of all time concedes he is likely competing in Australia for the final time as a new chapter looms in his personal and professional life.
- by Dan Walsh
The brutal training regime needed to take on 10m Hawaiian monsters
Felicity Palmateer will make history as one of the first Australian women to partake in ‘the Super Bowl of surfing’. Her intense training comes with a very specific warning - do not try this at home.
- by Dan Walsh
Surfing legend Slater misses WSL’s cut at Margaret River Pro
The 11-time world champion needed to beat Australian Liam O’Brien in their third-round battle at the Margaret River Pro on Saturday to have any hope of surviving the cut.
- by Justin Chadwick
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‘In honour of her’: Ewing wins Rip Curl Pro 40 years after his mum; Wright defends women’s title
Australians Ethan Ewing and Tyler Wright have claimed the men’s and women’s Rip Curl Pro, respectively. Wright took her second title, while Ewing claimed his first trophy 40 years after his late mother celebrated success at Bells Beach.
- by Damien Ractliffe
Old men and the sea: Hedge and Slater dominate Teahupo’o
With a combined age of 93, Nathan Hedge and Kelly Slater stole the show at one of world surfing’s most challenging breaks.
- by Dan Walsh
Riding the world’s biggest waves, without a surfboard
Kelly Slater described Kalani Lattanzi’s performance of bodysurfing a notorious break as “one of the all-time great rides in the surf world”.
- by Kelley Manley
Surfing greats seek to set Midget Farrelly’s legacy in stone
Surfing legends including Kelly Slater, Layne Beachley and Tom Carroll are campaigning to erect a statue of the late inaugural Australian world surfing champion Bernard “Midget” Farrelly in Palm Beach.
- by Millie Muroi
Meet the Emmy-winning filmmaker behind Barons’ authentic surf scenes
When the new ABC drama Barons set up its “surf” filming unit, a first for an Australian TV series, they turned to one of the world’s leading surf filmmakers, Taylor Steele.
- by Michael Idato
What Nadal’s win reveals about fitness and ageing
His age should have put him at a physical disadvantage, but Rafael Nadal shows how the changes to men’s fitness as they age might become an advantage.
- by Sarah Berry
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Kelly Slater has ‘no chance of getting in’ if not vaccinated: sports minister
In light of the Novak Djokovic saga, the World Surf League has warned unvaccinated surfers will face significant challenges travelling the world.
- by Michael Koziol and Damien Ractliffe
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