Teahupo'o, Paris 2024 surfing venue: Photographer left in coma for 2 days
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Just days before the start of the Olympic Surfing Trials in Teahupo'o, French Polynesia, an incident almost made history when a spectacular but dangerous wave knocked 19-year-old renowned photographer Byron McLoughlin unconscious. He came out of the coma two days later.