Ready the Kleenex.
“Where were you when Kelly Slater surfed his final ever heat” is, maybe, going to be a question asked by children and their grandchildren into eternity. The world’s greatest athlete will come up in heat 5 of the Tahiti Pro, today, against Australia’s Ryan Callinan.
The elimination round.
Commentators in the booth are calling conditions “challenging” i.e. “bad” and Strider Wasilewski let it slip that Slater had not caught a wave in the morning warm-up session.
A goose egg.
So, where are you going to be in just a few short hour’s time?
Taking time off work, heading down to the local bar and hugging patrons tightly?
Alone in your house, lights darkened, candles lit?
Other?
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If Slater loses, remember, he will be finished for the season and will only be back next year if granted a special season-long wildcard by the World Surf League itself.
Almost impossible to imagine.
Oh wait.
As you were.
UPDATE:
Kelly Slater made it past R. Cal in the Elimination Round! Will surf against Yago Dora in Heat 3 of the upcoming Round of 16.
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Hunter for President !!
I’m gonna jinx Kelly to the final!
Pretty sure he has already been gifted a start for next year. Sadly. But in other great news Venus won a big match today for the first time in years. So there is hope for KS
He has, and chas knows it but gotta double down on hyperbole!
De Milo?
I will be here laughing at all the trump cult buffoons who continue to stumble all over themselves trying to defend a known scam artist and criminal.
Biden forever!!
I certainly hope not.
Where were you, when they built the ladder to heaven?
As the majority shareholder and CEO of the FUCKIN’ TALL LADDER Co. I was leading the design and build team on that particular project, plus all other significant over-sized ladders internationally.
Cheers
Here’s a photo Elon took for me to check on construction progress.
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P.S.
Many have said Indonesia is potentially a better destination…
Brilliant.