Canada's Sanoa Dempfle-Olin has ticket to Paris, but plenty to accomplish beforehand

Every athlete that qualified for the Olympics at last month's Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, got a ceremonial ticket to Paris for the 2024 Summer Games.

Canadian surfer Sanoa Dempfle-Olin has been so busy that she hasn't had the time to even frame hers.

Dempfle-Olin became the first ever Canadian to earn an Olympic berth in surfing by reaching the Pan Am women's final on Oct. 30, where she earned a silver medal, losing out to Brazil's Tatiana Weston-Webb. The 18-year-old returned home to Tofino, B.C., for four days where she was celebrated by friends and family, before returning to competition in the International Surfing Association.

"They gave me two tickets, a paper one and then a foam one a little bit later," said Dempfle-Olin. "I didn't have time to decorate too much but the foam one was on my bookshelf and then the paper one I have on the wall by my bed, but it's not framed yet. I just slid it into like the light socket right now.

"I'll find a find a better place for it once I get home."

Dempfle-Olin was only home briefly before going to Jacksonville, Fla., for the Super Girl Surf Pro festival, then directly to Santa Cruz, Calif., for the O'Neill Cold Water Classic, an event on the World Surfing League's qualifying series schedule.

She will compete in the International Surfing Association's world junior championship in Rio de Janeiro starting Thursday.

"It's crazy that [the Pan Ams] was almost a month ago now," said Dempfle-Olin during some downtime in Rio. "I've been so busy since then and gone on so many trips so every time I have a moment like today, when I have some time to chill and think and decompress I feel like it's still sinking in."

That pace won't let up ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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