Viva la France!
Waves finally returned to Portugal and the World Surf League was able to finish the MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal in fun head high surf. A healthy crowd packed the brown-ish sand in order to cheer for heroes and heroines as they sought glory, points and the chance to bring a mid-sized Yeti cooler home.
On the women’s side, France’s Johanne Defay came up against Australia’s Tyler Wright. Doctors around the world tuned in in order to see Wright, a paddling medical miracle, continue to defy all odds and surf, at a very high level, even though she grew up under the unwavering gaze of a father who made her go into the ocean, debilitating post viral syndrome and perpetual suffocation.
The last bit just revealed with Wright declaring, “I’ve had a fair few doctors and specialists tell me they don’t know how I do what I do. I found out that most of the time I’m under-oxygenated and semi-suffocating. My airways are too small basically, and over the off-season I had it expanded. Honestly it’s been life-changing, it’s the sanest I’ve ever felt. It’s really successful, it’s changing my life, but it’s also a process and that’s only step one and a half of a multi-step process.”
The aforementioned doctors had given her more air by shoving a “maxillary palatal expander [a device that widens the mouth] in. Essentially I’ve got seven screws in my head, between nine and 17 millimetres [in length] and in the off-season I expanded it. Essentially it popped the bone and I got seven millimetres [added airway space] through that.”
It apparently did not work with Defay knocking Wright around in the finals.
Doctors returning to the drawing board, depressed.
Though joy in France. Defay ruling the day.
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“I’ve got seven screws in my head”
With quite possibly a few of them loose.
No ovaries were harmed in the making of this contest.
Defay has one of the best forehand bottom turns, if you know what I mean 😉
Tyler’s loss is everyone’s gain
Her surfing and narcissism are outdated
comfortively numb?
So unfair! How is Defey able to sleep at night?
In the Cola family winners get biblical names. Losers get named after celebrity rapists.
Brilliant. Truly Brilliant.
Tyler = crass
Johanne = class