Tyler and Owen Wright's "African virus" explained…
Two weeks ago, the world champion Tyler Wright and her brother Owen, the world number eleven, quietly pulled out of their respective events at Jeffreys Bay.
Both cited a mysterious “African flu”. This story was given no air time and no official statement was made.
Curiosity pricked, I asked around, called the WSL, Rip Curl. I was told the story was so insignificant it wasn’t worth a press release or official explanation.
Odd, I thought.
Today it can be revealed that Tyler’s “African flu” was the potentially deadly influenza A while Owen’s ailment was a ghastly bowel obstruction.
Last night on Instagram, Tyler explained:
Never thought the flu would stop me from competing….turns out I was very wrong. Influenza A is quite the catch, it wouldn’t leave me alone. Been out of it for a while now but had my first good day in about two weeks, still can’t do much and I’m about 8kg lighter.
Massive thank you to Alex, for not letting me die, never listening to me when I said I was fine and sticking around even though you could of caught it too.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bkpgkqmnqwo/?hl=en&taken-by=tylerwright
Owen, meanwhile, revealed his battle with an uncooperative gut:
I had to suddenly withdraw from the Jbay Open due to a bowel obstruction that was causing severe pain. I didn’t know at the time, I knew I had to pull out. but it got figured out in hospital later that night. glad I got it sorted and I’m on the mend. Safe to say it was a random occurrence and I’m looking forward to competing in Tahiti…
Case closed, as they say.
https://pics.me.me/Facebook…
Should have called Sarge. Pro surfer bowel obstructions are a specialty.
f y cnt tk sht, you’ve got a vowel obstruction.
lost 8kg!!!???
fuck doing hiit.
i am onto this influenza A like a fly on shit
Anyone else googling cocaine + constipation: A glove affair.
???
I think Jennifer Keyte still turned up for work at Channel 9 news following her bowel obstruction (being a wine/coke bottle up her arse) after she presented at St Vincent’s hospital as a result of falling in the shower…..shit effort by the Wrights.
I think it’s a shit effort by Derek – see what happens when we send an altar boy on a mission ?
We get a case of the flu and a bowel blockage.
What’s the takeaway ?
Tyler lost 8 kg and Owen gained 8kg.
pfft – coincidence ? I don’t think so … there’s more to this story.
What we’ve been fed stinks.
Dig, boy. Dig !
That’s actually a good one. Im going to suddenly withdraw from work tomorrow due to a bowel obstruction causing severe pain. It’s original, sympathy inducing, and pretty gross. Boss will understand. Thanks O Dawg.
A friend of mine once called off of work for an erection that wouldn’t go away.
“so insignificant it wasn’t worth a press release or official explanation” Then fucken tell evryone that, rather than have three different people on the webcast say conflicting things about it! FFS!
If the WSL didn’t notice surf fans generally like the whole Wright family so don’t treat them like 2nd class citizens… oh wait
Well, these revelations are extremely fukkn boring.
hmm, I propose we quash them and keep alive rampant speculation of cocaine use and sex toys and bribery, wsl manipulation and I dunno, what about some good old fashioned beastiality. Or something to do with schoolboys in uniform. That always gets a few comments.
I’m sure there’s something there, gotta be. We won’t be too far away from the truth.
Aliens. S’fuckin aliens, man.
They needed a couple days to create the Wright’s clones. The originals are now being shipped off to Alpha Centauri for inter-species sexual sonic chemtrails.
Mark my words. The lefties will have us all doing this once our guns have been taken away and given to the Gay Illuminati NASA Muslims!
How’s that?
Much better than I was thinking.
Nothing to see here peeps, move along, please!
That girl down there looks incredible in her wetsuit.
No wetsuit for me – I have a local real estate agent.
Oh which girl?
Sage E jumping for joy after winning 2017 US Open . In Chas’ us open article .
oohh what a feeling….. Toyota?
I understand withdrawing for the flu but for constipation, that’s kind of shitty.
Quite the opposite…it’s no shitty.
The constipation story smells. A leak would help, because it’s full of crap and the truth still needs to come out. Poop.
He certainly had to “pull out” something. (The bowel obstruction, I mean. This is a horrible joke.)