Surfing great Kelly Slater to retire after Paris Olympics in 2024

• American 11-time world champion aims to qualify for Games
• Slater will be 52 if he surfs at competition to be held in Tahiti

Surfing great Kelly Slater has said he will retire from competition after the Paris Olympics next year.

Widely considered the greatest surfer of all time, the 51-year-old has enjoyed a career of unprecedented success and duration. Slater won his first world title in 1992, aged 20, and another 10 world titles in subsequent decades. Most recently, he took out last year's Pipeline Masters in Hawaii and is currently ranked 16th in the world.