Paul Rouse: Standing on the sea an elusive beauty

Paul Rouse has been surfing on the west coast of France, another magnificently enjoyable failure 

STANDING TALL: Team France’s Kuali Vaast, a local born in Tahiti, reacts to beating Australia’s Jack Robinson to claim the surfing gold medal in Teahupo’o during the Olympics earlier this week. Picture: Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images

The abuse started early. A couple of the teenagers handed me a note which read:

“Excuses: