Aussie Olympian Ethan Ewing Under Siege As Brazilian Surf Fans Mount Hostile Takeover Of His Instagram Account

"Now you don't have your little friend to try to cover for you!!! You messed with those who are quiet!! This is Brazil!"

It might be hard to believe but it’s only been two weeks since the the surfing judge Ben Lowe was booted out of Tahiti because of a photo where he stood alongside Australian surf coach Bede Durbidge and Australia Olympic surfer Ethan Ewing.

All three men come from the same Queensland island, North Stradbroke, and someone said, hey boys, let’s get a photo of you guys together, not aware of the tears it would rouse in the quick-to-ire Brazilian surf fan.

Aussie surf judge ben lowe sent home from olympics. — Ben Lowe, at right, a British-Australian surf judge, sent home from Teahupoo after complaints of bias from Brazil.

More than anyone, this photo upset big-wave surfer Pedro Scooby, a serial complainer who believes an anti-Brazil element inhabits high-level surf judging despite Brazilians winning every men’s world title since 2018 and even at the Tokyo Games where Italo took gold. .

“During the Tokyo games, there was a judge who assigned the highest scores to Medina’s opponents in the same heat, while giving him the lowest marks,” wrote Scooby. “A formal complaint was lodged against this judge to the Olympic Committee, but nothing was done. This guy is back again. Just today, while relaxing at home, I received a WhatsApp photo of him hugging Ethan, who is the one that, if Medina advances, could face him in the semifinals.”

(Scooby is no stranger to these pages.You’ll recall JP Currie’s extensive coverage of allegations Scooby allegedly became Neymar Jr’s lover at a sex party..“The allegations came via a Brazilian woman who identifies as an ‘influencer’, a term I find so distasteful I won’t mention her name. She alleges that she and another woman joined Neymar Jr and Scooby for a foursome, but that the two men were far more interested in each other.”However, it’s not the first time the tabloid press have made allegations about Neymar Jr’s sexuality, in particular the nature of his friendship with Gabriel Medina.)

Anyway, long story short, as they say, a BeachGrit reader pointed out that Brazilian fans have massed in the comments of Ethan Ewing’s Instagram account, carpet-bombing the baby-faced twenty-five-year-old Australian with the “plumpest and most spankable bottom in surfing”.

There’s history, of course. Brazilian surf fans promised, in a DM, to kill Ewing after judges awarded him a victory over Gabriel Medina in 2023.

“One day, you will compete here in Brazil and us will remember you. Get ready,” wrote the Brazilian surf fan. “I’m saying again, here in Brazil, we will kill you. Saquarema will be your funeral.”

Ewing posted the DM responding, “How good are surfing fans!”

Interestingly, it was the fury of the Brazilian surf fan that motivated Ewing to rush his return from a back injury at Teahupoo so he could compete on Finals Day and therefore deprive Medina of coming in as a replacement.