Comments on: Stunning Olympic surfing photo

Stunning Olympic surfing photo

Gorgik — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 09:58:47 -0800

Gabriel Medina's post-run celebration. The story, from NPR. Video of the ride.

Olympics and Tahiti, previously

By: supermedusa

supermedusa — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:16:21 -0800

I'm only half watching the highlights with one eye, but there have been some truly spectacular moments in this Olympics. that wave is terrifying!

By: grumpybear69

grumpybear69 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:42:05 -0800

That is an amazing photo which I totally thought was fake. It does seem like he risked getting beaned by the board!

By: mrjohnmuller

mrjohnmuller — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:48:45 -0800

When I first saw this pic circulating, I thought it was an artists interpretation of someone walking through an interdimensional gateway, connected by some sort of umbilical.

By: rhizome

rhizome — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:53:48 -0800

The question is...how will it be repurposed into a meme? Since that's what I thought it might be when I first saw it. Out of the loop comes full-circle. Great pic, one in a million!

By: philip-random

philip-random — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:03:07 -0800

The uploader has not made this video available in your country typical -- this is probably better anyway Biggest Teahupoo ever,

By: NoxAeternum

NoxAeternum — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:03:55 -0800

That picture is what Hendrix was singing about with "excuse me while I kiss the sky". That said, the other indelible image from the surfing event is the poor surfer who wiped out so hard he wound up ass over kettle on the world stage. Ouch.

By: obfuscation

obfuscation — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:17:55 -0800

What an incredible photo. I'd seen it in passing but didn't know the story and also assumed it was in some way altered. I love athletic joy!

By: theora55

theora55 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:21:55 -0800

Earlier in the clip, it's amazing to see the huge wave form.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:22:45 -0800

the poor surfer who wiped out so hard he wound up ass over kettle on the world stage Historical precedent, from Art But Make It Sports.

By: thecincinnatikid

thecincinnatikid — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:36:41 -0800

AI could not "imagine" this image.

By: Abehammerb Lincoln

Abehammerb Lincoln — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:46:11 -0800

Goddamit, Jesus, stop showing off.

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:59:29 -0800

Doesn't turning off the gravity count as cheating?

By: eviemath

eviemath — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:42:29 -0800

So, I haven't been able to find a video eg. on YouTube that I can watch in slow mo to catch the moment depicted in the photo. Any links?

By: eviemath

eviemath — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:44:05 -0800

(It might be the video link in the fpp, but that's region blocked for me.)

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:13:48 -0800

Don't know if you can get videos on the CBC, but here is theirs.

By: deadbilly

deadbilly — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:00:29 -0800

Amazing. I went to Teahupo'o four or five years ago and the shear *mass* of the wall of water that crashes over the top of that reef is almost impossible to describe. Also, it breaks in *barely* waist-high water! (incidentally, one of my favorite trip "souvenirs" was found here: an old rusty pétanque ball (boule?) bobbing at the edge of the lagoon)

By: q*ben

q*ben — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:25:59 -0800

Medina's superpower is showboating so this should come as no surprise. Missing Ferreira in the competition this year. Brazilian surfing - what a powerhouse.

By: neuron

neuron — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:51:00 -0800

I don't know anything about surfing but the book Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan is insanely great and won a Pulitzer Prize.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 07:46:42 -0800

[ This post is part of the Olympics roundup in the sidebar and Best Of blog! ]

By: cheshyre

cheshyre — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:02:19 -0800

the poor surfer who wiped out so hard he wound up ass over kettle on the world stage The next time someone updates "the agony of defeat" clipreel.