On a distant reef 16,000km from Paris, surfer Gabriel Medina has given Olympic viewers one of the most memorable images of the Games yet, with an airborne celebration so well poised it looked too good to be true.

The Brazilian took off a thundering wave at Teahupo’o in Tahiti on Monday, emerging from a barrelling section before soaring into the air and appearing to settle on a Pacific cloud, pointing to the sky with biblical serenity, his movements mirrored precisely by his surfboard.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah Brazil, fuck I don’t know why they make videos private for another country.

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        3 months ago

        That was awesome to watch! Thanks for the link and country (had the same VPN issues).

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        3 months ago

        TV rights finance most of the Olympics so you can imagine they are well-guarded. Even archival footage from decades ago is expensive to licence. So I didn’t ☠️