"He won every single heat he surfed with power, wild aerial surfing and he did with with a smile on his face. We’re seeing a reignited Gabriel Medina."
In today’s episode of Toxic Positivity, WSL/ISA shill Chris Cote reports from a wild final day at the ISA Games that saw Gabriel Medina win the men’s gold medal, elevating Brazil to the number one, thereby getting ’em an extra Olympic slot, and with a dominance not seen since…well… maybe a first!
“Gabriel Medina needed to win and guess what, he showed up in a huge way in Puerto Rico,” says Cote. “He won every single heat he surfed with power, wild aerial surfing and he did with with a smile on his face. We’re seeing a reignited Gabriel Medina.
According to Cote,
“The maestro is back and this week proved it. He smashed his way through the final day, made it look easy and may have locked himself in for the third Olympic spot for team Brazil. It was just as he planned it. He got priority in the final, blocked everybody else, won the gold medal and is the ISA world champion.”
But will he be given the vacant third men’s slot? Sources say yes, but as Chas Smith reported earlier today, “The brightest analytical minds are, currently, sorting through the data to see which Brazilian will lay claim to the third Olympic slot as the qualification rules and regulations are more difficult to sort than the formula for cold fusion.”
It’s either Gabriel Medina or the just-as-spectacular Yago Dora.
Both would be considered among the favourites to win Olympic gold at Teahupoo.
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I didn’t watch Cote because I only use YouTube for cooking videos. Shouts out to Kenji and Dona Lupita! I am curious though if Cote still dresses like an 8th grader from San Clemente. I hope he saved all that TWS cash.
Nope blew it on coke and teenage hookers
too late
Keep the Toxic Positivity coming. I’m enjoying the love hate contrast it adds to this place.
admittedly having some cognitive dissonance. Thought Cote was a pleasure when Chas hosted him a few weeks ago, seemed like a one off — will take some getting used to but not hating it for now.
admit no defeat…to Joan or DeFaye! or the sparse crowd…
https://youtu.be/53N99Nim6W…
https://youtu.be/IkgaMFjo_l…
san tropez
xan I play it now?
An excellent surfer surfed excellently in pedestrian surf. Crazy.
That is why you don’t put F1 drivers on go cart tracks agains go cart racers. Can’t wait to see Gabe, JJF, and a few others at Chopes.
I rate this so hard. Cote x BG is the marriage we never knew we wanted, let alone needed. More toxic positivity Chris, feed the beast
Mother Colapinto famously came out swinging on BG about some comments teasing her eldest son during the ‘threats’.
Was her parenting style why he turned a bit odder and went to a commune for meditation (possibly with ayahuasca, or is that only at Kelly and Rogan’s hangout), to get over it ?
Perhaps if they’d had a big old fashioned public family bust-up like the Medina’s did, then we’d now be talking about how the Americans have the extra Olympic spot and how about how Kelly would try to make that spot his, through hysterical countbacks.
P.S.
If anyone could get a joint interview with both Medina’s and Colapinto’s mothers it’d probably make great entertainment, and possibly eclipse the Chas/Bluto ‘encounter’…
am bellied up to ur bar…surprise me~not w/ a pooh stanch
Bluto! Lol
Hats off to Filipe too, Dude went there for his Country.
Wasn’t it a requirement?
I only carry a petrol can, not a water can for the fire.
Let’s not get all arse kissy out of guilt
queer eye for the straight guy(s)…keep it goin’~ luv straight guys~
A “comeback” should only be measured, and rightly appreciated as such, at the conclusion of the competitive season.
,
Donggang Jinhui Foodstuff, a seafood-processing company in Dandong,
China, threw a party. It had been a successful year: a new plant had
opened, and the company had doubled the amount of squid that it exported
to the United States. The party, according to videos posted on Douyin,
the Chinese version of TikTok, featured singers, instrumentalists,
dancers, fireworks, and strobe lights. One aspect of the company’s
success seems to have been its use of North Korean workers, who are sent
by their government to work in Chinese factories, in conditions of
captivity, to earn money for the state. A seafood trader who does
business with Jinhui recently estimated that it employed between fifty
and seventy North Koreans. Videos posted by a company representative
show machines labelled in Korean, and workers with North Korean accents
explaining how to clean squid. At the party, the company played songs
that are popular in Pyongyang, including “People Bring Glory to Our
Party” (writes Steve Garvey)
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Sorry Pauly. Not here.
He’s had the PooPoo touch.
Very good but Peter Criss Cote was a missed opportunity.
Xox
Drew Carey too
Chris *Cunt
*Cunte
his bro did guitar solos and such…Eddie Did Go!
Any Major Dude Will Tell Ya…
It’s remarkable how someone can look so out of sorts at pipe, get a forgettable 9th at sunset, then win an isa in Puerto Rico and this all somehow equates to a full comeback in Chris Cotes mind
This event is one of the biggest grinds with the gnarliest hungriest contest Surfers. It’s a massive result for Gabby, he knew he had to perform to get his name back in the Olympics conversation.
So yeah I’d say it’s a comeback too.
Avoided a single repechage heat because Gabby, like everyone else, didn’t understand what the fuck that even means
I suppose so. But I think we will have to wait and see if he even gets the slot or gets his shit together in some ct events to call it a comeback. I mean there is a shot Yago gets that extra slot and then gabby does shitty at a few more ct events in a row and wowza we are looking at a mid season cut and a missed Olympics appearance. Bit early to be calling a full comeback. Now if he’d done well in the last two ct events and had guaranteed a spot in the Olympics as of now sure I’m on board with the call
Gabby gonna grind his balls in your face, mark my words.
I’m in on his balls this year. Dude looks like a beast. JJF better bring it. Want to see them punching it out before the tour collapses.
ironic for sure (karma??) if the WSL flames out in a blaze of JJF, GM et al packing monster left barrels.
O’ld scrotum positivity..
remember when GM would never take off behind the peak, never too deep, always played it safe, seemed to always make it but never seemed to stall?? And now he’s a genuine threat to dominate Chopes?? a credit to him, I think, he took it to another level. So you are probably right (mod ass kissing be damned).
As long as he shaves his chest first
mentally, it’s 100% a comeback. he was lacking confidence and was getting schooled by rookies. People (me) were calling him a retiree a few weeks ago. He looked abysmal in the water. What he did today is nothing short of incredible if you consider what’s on the line and what his odds were.
Who was calling him a retiree?
Read the comment again, ya fucken ass bitch.
Man, Trump’s polling numbers are sure making you feel down and out, aren’t they now.
Can’t say that I have the most remote clue what they are of late. May the best dementia patient win.
Much like Beachgrit it’s a race to the bottom.
Make America Great Again by Making Democrats Go to Jail Again.
Projection.
Whatever it is, you’ve reduced poor Pauly to misspelled ad hominem attacks. Keep up the good work. 🤣
myself and half o brazil
No doubt he ripped
what about italo tho ranked higher no?
Brazil should send gabby Yago and italo – one those 3 would win and in reality could be gold silver bronze for any of them
If three-feet and from the south, Filipe a favourite!
Ooof just imagine. If he won like that we would never hear the end of it from Charlie. See I told you my son charges teahupoo
Charlie? Dickie?
eight miles high on 12 strings…deportage heat @12…who do you love on the landline…
That be my 12 gauge
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And 6 shooter
got 2 axes to grind…Mona is on you and Gabby…
don’t you mean ‘décolletage’?
Good one! Both guitar-based long songs (Chris Hillman and John Cipollina, respectively) give me the chillings! The Empresses in that heat (and many others) need not wear ANY clothes…((art decolletage’..i.e. The area of a woman’s body that is exposed when a garment with a low neckline (also no tan-lines) is worn))…thrillings!
happy hour tune…https://youtu.be/siv9Nh0W1xc?si=jcS…
just strip slowly/
Those are the conditions we deserve
Italo can’t go as he did not surf in the world surfing games. That’s one of the requirements.
i rely on you for the research – thanks