Kia ora/hi

 First up, this isn’t about addressing injustice or anything like and death. This is about making this year’s Olympics as interesting and enjoyable as possible from a surfer’s perspective and about giving something back to the G.O.A.T. I encourage you to find other things you care about within change.org once you’ve signed this.

Kelly Slater is the greatest competitive surfer of all time. You can find a brief bio about him on the Olympics website. The vast majority of surfers and surfing fans would love to see Kelly Slater surfing @ Teahupoo in this year's Olympic games. This includes other competitors - they'd either love to compete against him because doing so, in Tahiti is likely to be the highlight of their competitive surfing career...or, if they don't want to surf against him it's probably because they know he could beat them. 

Kelly hasn't qualified via standard processes but it might not be too late for the International Olympics Committee to adjust entry criteria to accommodate him. Some may feel this wouldn't be fair to others. On the flipside - if the Olympics exist in order to showcase the best talent in any given arena I feel allowing Slater to surf in this year's games would allow the committee to show they know how to achieve their goal. Please sign if you agree. Cheers, James Whitaker