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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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[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Is he by any chance called Jesús?

Edit: Gabriel is close enough

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

This reminds me more of those floating devices in Dune that the baron uses

[–] another@discuss.online 2 points 2 months ago

He could be Damion, you never know.