And warns of gold medals in Tokyo!
Vindication has been slow in arriving for the reigning world champion and Pipeline Master, Adriano de Souza.
I’m positive you won’t have forgotten how, hours after the remarkable double feat, the first by a Brazilian, Kelly Slater loosed vision of a wavepool unlike anything the world had ever seen.
Chas Smith wrote, “He had etched his name into the record books and could sit back and be lauded for a hard-fought year. Except he couldn’t because when he woke up this morning the lauders were glued to computer screens not watching his year’s highlights but ogling Kelly Slater’s magnificent wave.”
Do you remember Kelly and Adriano’s ancient blood feud?
I’m certainly not a world expert at body language, an expert at nothing except online shopping if truth be told, but it does seem that Kelly fudges when the interviewer Mitchell Ross asks for the causes of the event. Do you like it when Kelly likens Adriano’s intemperance to a chemical imbalance due to his “passion”? I do!
This now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t exchange was a pulse throbber too!
Anyway, the eyes of the world were on Adriano de Souza today, and not Kelly, and not Gabriel, when the Brazilian carried the Olympic torch in his home town of Guarujá, making a spectacular arrival via boat, and flanked by foam SUPs.
“I came back to Brazil just to participate in the relay. I am so happy everything worked out. It’s a great honour to carry the torch.”
And, watch out Tokyo 2020. Adriano, he want gold!
“I am already imagining myself putting on my country’s lycra and fighting for a podium place.”
His wedding was something else, too. Watch that here.
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Sidenote: what’s up with all the “k’s” the Brazillian dudes put when they make comments on Insta, etc?” For instance: “Vai Medina kkkkkkkkk!” Not judging, just curious as to why there are more kkk’s on some post than in a Trump rally.
HAHAHAHA he can’t wait to put on lycra?!
Nice to see that the special Olympics is picking up other countries “special” little guys and allowing them to do things like this,bless his little zika heart.
World Sup League
What the fuck are all these SUPS behind him? At least put real surfing in the background, longboards or shortboards. Not SUPing as cool as it may be
That bridge over the pool at their wedding seems primed for a thousand wedding blooper videos!
us open of surfing is embarrassing enough
Adriano’s surfing style is really horrible and perhaps the worst a world champion ever had but that wife is pretty and looks like she really loves him.
she loves his money, not his monkey face
No, but he is doing the pool deck interviews for NBC.
OK say the Olympics gets the go ahead for Tokyo 2020. Does Kelly Slater make the US team? Remember Hawaiians are in the US are far as the Olympics are concerned. Discuss.
Only as the coach to Team USA… like a fly to shit, he won’t miss it.
Wish surfing would Brexit from WSL and Olympics
Juice him up and put him in the 400m
I can’t wait to see Adriano mug shots on the side of Olympic editions of coca-cola cans and McDonald’s packaging!