Gabriel Medina’s Unrivaled Consistency At Teahupo’oConditions were perfect
how the breathtaking image of Olympic surfer Gabriel Medina was takenJérôme Brouillet’s photo of the floating surfer is a potentially defining image of the 2024 Olympics, and came off a wave that gave the Brazilian
his best score yetThe 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 surfboardOn 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
