Have you ever been paddleboarding? I just learned that it has been around since the 1930s!
Is it a sporting competition?
It can be! Champion paddlers can go hours practicing before a race, and that's only a warm-up!
When is the earliest history of paddling?
An artist who visited the Sandwich Islands in 1178, then made an engraving in 1781 with a paddleboarder in the corner.
Wow! That'd interesting! When did it become an Olympic sport?
It's currently on its way to becoming an Olympic sport. They just added surfing for Tokyo in 2020!
OK,that quite revealing!
Actually Tokyo is the only Asian city to have hosted the Olympics more than once! The last time they did was 1964.