"I encourage you to find other things you care about within change.org once you’ve signed this."
Kelly Slater’s twenty-seventh annual retirement tour is only just getting underway and it has already been one of the greatest in recent memory. From the outpouring of affection for the 11 x surf champion to the wildcards he has been gifted which will allow him to retire next year again, the mise-en-scene has been nothing short of spectacular.
Well, when it rains it pours and things are getting better. Overnight, a petition began circulating demanding that the greatest to ever wear a professional surfing singlet be allowed to compete in this summer’s Olympiad. Righting a wrong.
New Zealander Paul Whitaker, taking to change.org, writes:
Kia ora/hi
First up, this isn’t about addressing injustice or anything like and death. This is about making this year’s Olympics as interesting and enjoyable as possible from a surfer’s perspective and about giving something back to the G.O.A.T. I encourage you to find other things you care about within change.org once you’ve signed this.
Kelly Slater is the greatest competitive surfer of all time. You can find a brief bio about him on the Olympics website. The vast majority of surfers and surfing fans would love to see Kelly Slater surfing @ Teahupoo in this year’s Olympic games. This includes other competitors – they’d either love to compete against him because doing so, in Tahiti is likely to be the highlight of their competitive surfing career…or, if they don’t want to surf against him it’s probably because they know he could beat them.
Kelly hasn’t qualified via standard processes but it might not be too late for the International Olympics Committee to adjust entry criteria to accommodate him. Some may feel this wouldn’t be fair to others. On the flipside – if the Olympics exist in order to showcase the best talent in any given arena I feel allowing Slater to surf in this year’s games would allow the committee to show they know how to achieve their goal. Please sign if you agree.
Well, do you?
He could surf for Syria like Kanoa surfs for Japan
Special Olympics for sure!….
How much lower can beach grit really go, I catch these wannabe overly verbose yet poor excuses for anything journalistic pleas as click bait surmounted taskings to enthrall poorly a dying venue. See I too can command the language at will, idiots. This is insulting, even posting such arbitrary nonsense is demeaning and I truly hope the real … real world surf community disavows such rhetoric. Suggesting that a petition would or could grant someone entry into an Olympics unqualified is rather disturbing, publishing such to fill an astoundingly absurd ego is moreso. Apparently a couple years of Logans antics has stripped this site of any worthwhile pursuits of journalistic integrity, hell it’s pretty much just collapsed any hopes of just actually… interesting, or relevant material associated with the world of surfing.
Word
You could try increasing your fibre intake.
No way,
Beach grit is pythonesque!!
Dirk may pull some strings for him.
If signing this petition means Kelly will achieve his dream of surfing in the Olympics and officially retire from the limelight then its worth it but knowing Kelly, he can’t be trusted.
Why don’t we just give him the gold medal now so everyone can shut up about it.
If he doesn’t go through the process the way everybody else does. It’s just not fair, if you want to see Kelly surf…go see him Surf, but for some reason if he got in and if he won, there’d be a huge Asterix by his name.
The point of difference between the ISA and the WSL is Kelly IS the WSL. WSL is in bed with Kelly and they bend and break the rules for Kelly all the time to gain more eyeballs. What’s refreshing about the ISA is they stick to their guns and it’s a lovely… because there’s no Kelly.
Time for an oldie but a goodie.
A gift for all Slater fanbois…. Print it. Hang on your mantelpiece.
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Cr: Jordy’s Pout iirc
Possibly influenced by his pregnancy
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Won’t be signing it, but could we please get a petition banning him from social media…
Jesus. This Pauly guy really has a hard on for the goat.
He could be arabic.
Bags of cash gets things done with the Olympic commitee. Petitions are for amatuers.
… gofundme for pros
So you’re saying we needed a change.org petition for DSS and Negs would have reinstated him?
…or that Brazilian surfers need change.org petitions to reverse WSL judging decisions?
Tossin’ out a non-sequitar…re: Olympic drug testing. “Just say no says the Nancy’s, Karen’s, Sasha’s…et al.” Let’s hum a spritual tune together kids ’cause We cannot petition the lord with prayer. Let’s let the WSL judges piss in a cup for proof of sobriety while the surfer’s are gettin’ off on ayayusca, steroids, thai stick and CBD and going ‘freestyle…’
If this guy wants to REALLy make a name for himself on the way out the door, then he and EVERYBODY else won’t surf Chopes during a “contest format”. You sob’s have danced around the World the last 20 years talking about climate, and all that psycho Earth talk. I think he shouldn’t be offered a microphone any more if he surfs there in competition. Come on you virtue signaling, twatwads. Prove all that lip service about “Earth/climate” is real.
#boycottChopescomps
He knows its bullshit and that weed loves carbon, and he loves cbd dik balm
heroes are becoming hard to find…
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His Chinese girlfriend needs him at home..
The only place he will never be.
It might not be too late to declare Slater to be a country and let him compete under its flag.
I’m a bit surprised that Slater himself hasn’t proposed this to the IOC.
He could surf for Typhoon Lagoon
KS would pull off the biggest most radical manoeuvre in his never ending career if he can blag a wildcard from the Olympic movers and shakers.