Medina responds to claims from Igarashi he's a cry-baby etc.
The two-time world champion Gabriel Medina, whose lunge for Olympic Gold was stymied by controversial judging decisions in both his semi-final and bronze-medal heats, has hit back at Olympic medallist Kanoa Igarashi after he appeared to mock the Brazilian in a tweet.
In Portuguese, for Igarashi is fluent in Portuguese, a sort of American English as well as Japanese, he tweeted, “Chora chora q tou feliz! Hehehehe” followed by “Bla bla bla” and a laughing emoji.
Translate, “Cry cry. I’m happy!”
Bla bla bla, pretty explanatory.
Medina, cry-baby etc.
The tweet went pretty mad, 877 retweets, 8,337 likes and 11.5k quote tweets.
As a blanket response to his Brazilian critics, Igarashi wrote, “I always have the utmost respect for other competitors, but I don’t have the patience for people who like to talk bad about something I don’t have control over. I did my best and that’s it.”
https://twitter.com/KanoaIgarashi/status/1420357003713531908
After landing back home in Brazil, Medina was quick to hit back at Igarashi.
“Clowning around after you win is easy. Everyone respects each other on the circuit. I won countless times from him and never played. I prefer to work in silence, do mine and focus… I watched the waves. That’s why I held back my words, I wouldn’t speak without having watched. Comparing my best waves and his two best ones, I won the heat. I’m really sad…I don’t want to let it shake me. I received huge support from Brazil, and that only makes me stronger. Those sad days will pass and I will bring even more pride to us.”
Medina added he wanted to light up Tahiti at the 2024 Paris Games, the surfing part of the show being held at Teahupoo.
“I hope to be in the next Olympics in Tahiti, which is a wave I love. There is still a long time, three years, but my dream starts from now…”
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This is exactly what happened. Dude was silent and brazillian fans attacked him like he personally bribed the judges to eff up Medina.
hey Kanoa: go fuck yourself
So cool the top WSL athletes find the top ISA event so valuable.
kanoa is a queef any country or language.
Gossip alert: Italo and Gabby follow each other on Instagram again.
3 things here:
1. Fuck me how good is rivalry? Cunts firing up and shooting shit at each other. Fucking gold. No doubt the WSL will fuck it up somehow and pretend they’re rooting each other
2. Kanoa is not fluent in Japanese, as suggested. Fuck me he ain’t. No no, nai, chigai masu!
3. Gabby “I prefer to work in silence…” except here, where I’ll work loudly, and get right down into this little tit for tat catfight by typing a bunch of shit to millions of followers.
P.S. How good’s rivalry and cunts firing up?
I saw S_____ G_____ at Whole Foods today.
She looked kind of somber.
Kind of like how T_____ P_____ looked after he didn’t win the Best Picture Oscar for J_____.
Oh well, Teahupoo is only three years off.
Think they will hold the Women’s at another venue if Teahupoo is eight feet?
One wonders.
Ì don’t get you!….Mr marcus
Shut up and shave your pits Medina
Why y’all are so obsessed with a grown ass men’s pits is beyond me.
There ya go folks in black and white , the difference between true Olympians and self entitled Pro Surfers , some if not most Olympic atheletes have spent a life time preparing and sacrificing for a shot to achive Olympic selection let alone achieving a gold medal in their choose sport , 99 % fail in taking the final step up onto the podium, and they carry themselves with pride and respect.
Not the fucken so called professional surfers my gosh what a bunch of self entitled disrespectful brats they have shown themselves to be.
Medinas a cry baby what about the heat Julian Wilson so clearly won Medina shouldn’t even made the semis
Julian is also a major cry baby so they cancel each other out.
Where did Gabby say that?
Will chip on his shoulder Medina who is livid he couldn’t win at the olys be the most terrifying dominating rendition yet?
Prolly.
This verbal pillow fight between two banchongs has already bored me. Throw a punch or fuck off.
I have vehemently hated Medina for years, then Kanoa came along. Go Medina.
Oh, Kanoa, you silly, silly boy.
You know that episode in The Last Dance where they showed what happened to people who talked shit to Jordan?
Enjoy the rest of your career as a victim.
Jordan even left out the Australian , Luc Longely , who played centre with him and for him , so Michael could do all the razzle dazzle at the Bulls for their 2nd 3 peat .
Funnily enough in a team of huge egos , the big bloke 7’2” Longely , was a galvanizing force on and off the court keeping the unstable elements glue together socially …..
SO THEY FORGOT TO PUT HIM IN THE DOCUMENTARY ….
so the guy who surfed for a country he doesn’t live in, nor was born in, throws shade at a 3 time WT winner who actually lives where he was born and raised an represented his own country in the olympics.
classic. the japanese should be ashamed to have let him surf for them, and he wouldn’t have made the USA team.
Oh no no no no! All s fair in the sports and nationalities game and any athlete that has citizenship is fully justified to surf for that nation. Kanoa and Maeda even speak and write Japanese so the connection is real. Its 2021 and dual or multiple citizenships are here to stay.
Well I can Cronulla Point if you like ?
does anything remotely positive come out of twitter?
The Arab spring! Oh, wait…
dividends?
Yes they banned Trump.
“some sort of American English” sooo shady! I love it!
Ultra lame surf gossip with douchebags is more like it.
Gold!!
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