Senegal’s top surfer wants a fighting chance to compete at the Olympics

Cherif Fall kissed his wife on the lips and they swapped pecks on each other's foreheads, for good luck. Instead of training in the waves off his Senegal homeland, Fall was wistfully preferring to be in Puerto Rico, where the last surfing qualifying competition for the Paris Olympics ends on Saturday. Senegal had nobody there to try and claim the last 14 spots for men and women.