Windsurfing was invented in California in the late 1960s by Jim Drake and Hoyle Schweitzer. It became a worldwide sport and made its Olympic debut at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Washoe Lake near Reno, Nevada is a popular North American spot for it, while the Bedouin town of Dahab on Egypt's Sinai coast drew a generation of European windsurfers from the 1990s.