TEAHUPO'O, Tahiti: Brazil's Gabriel Medina powered through a giant blue barrel for the highest score of the Olympic surfing competition so far, but Tahiti's Teahupo'o stole the show on Monday (Jul 29) with some of the most incredible waves ever seen in competition.
Paris 2024 Olympics - Surfing - Men's Round 3 - Heat 5 - Teahupo'o, Tahiti, French Polynesia - July 29, 2024. Gabriel Medina of Brazil rides a wave. Ed Sloane/Pool via REUTERS
The decision to hold the surfing event at the perfect reef pass of Teahupo'o proved inspired as a solid southwest swell rose and a forecasted storm held off just long enough to complete the men's third round. Medina got the wave of the event so far in his round-five heat against Japan's Tokyo Olympic silver medallist Kanoa Igarashi, a 9.90 out of 10 that was, if anything, underscored.
"The wave is just so powerful. It doesn't relate to any other sport, you know what I mean? Maybe an avalanche or something coming down on your head on a mountain. That's similar... It's so dangerous."Earlier, Tahiti's Kauli Vaast, surfing for host nation France, eliminated American Griffin Colapinto.
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