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The premiere should start in four months.
For the first time, medals in surfing will be awarded at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Katherine Díaz was also full of hope to be there in Japan.
Until an incredible stroke of fate ruined everything.
The surfer from El Salvador was training on Friday near her home in El Tunco in the south-west of the country on the rough Pacific coast when a sudden change in weather surprised the athlete.
The 22-year-old was struck by lightning in the water.
Rescue workers pulled Díaz ashore and, according to the Guardian, tried to revive the surfer on the shore.
But the emergency medical procedures came too late.
The young athlete died in her great passion.
"Global Ambassador for Sport"
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The International Surfing Association (ISA) wrote on its Facebook page: “It is with a heavy heart that the ISA received the news of Katherine Díaz's death.
She embodied the joy and energy that makes surfing so special and important to us.
She was a global ambassador for the sport. ”The El Salvador Surf Association also remembered the late athlete:“ We'll see each other again, great fighter.
El Salvador mourns. "
Díaz started surfing at the age of nine, inspired by her brother José Díaz, who is now the association's president.
She had already taken part in various international competitions and won a national competition last November.
Díaz was buried on Sunday.