CHEYNE GETS THE CHAMPAGNE
Great rivalries are what really make sport compelling to watch.We may marvel at brilliant individual displays of skill, but gritty, emotionally charged tussles are what really captivate us. Invariably, it’s often these scenarios, which pit two brilliant, but evenly matched competitors against one another that produce otherworldly performances. Often the results are beyond the reckoning of even those carrying them out as one competitor drags the other into a realm where the seemingly impossible happens.
In professional surfing the defining rivalry of the late 70s and early 80s was between Mark Richards and Cheyne Horan. Richards was
