With the recent news of Brazil’s Gabriel Medina winning the 2024 ISA World Surfing Games in Puerto Rico in spectacular fashion, it’s time again to talk about the Olympics. With his decisive victory, Medina clinched a spot on the Brazilian Olympic team, joining five other countrymen and women who’ve already qualified to represent their powerhouse nation when the surfing event commences at Teahupo’o on July 27.
Medina will be jousting alongside 10 other WSL Championship Tour surfers for top honors in what ISA shōgun Fernando Aguerre and his fellow event organizers are hoping will be bluebird conditions at the fearsome Tahitian reef break for at least four days out of a nine-day waiting period. Bluebird, as in glassy, grinding, 15-foot-plus barrels. Conditions which will summarily eliminate virtually all the other qualifying surfers, both men and women, from what are being termed “non-major” surfing nations, before they even jump off the boat. But hey, I’m getting ahead of myself here. READ MORE FROM THE INERTIA
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