Surfing officially number one.
We did it! We really did it! Surfing, once a backwater or derelicts and crooks, now glittering, golden and beloved by the important voters of the World Sports Photography Awards. Huzzah, huzzah and one more huzzah, for you, but the biggest huzzah to Jerome Brouillet who captured the now-iconic moment and made us all respectable and grand.
Oh but of course you know the winning image, the viral sensation, Brazil’s Gabriel Medina kicking out of a Teahupo’o wave during this past summer’s Olympic Games, pointing one finger to the sky and declaring supremacy over all sports for all of 2024.
Beating Duke vs. North Carolina State, equestrians riding during sunset (or sunrise… I can’t tell), Green Bay’s Jordan Love stretching the football toward end zone pylon, golfer Bryson DeChambeau celebrating a winning putt, a race car, diver, ping pong player, ski jumper, rugby bros, boxer about to get punched in the eye…
…Beating all-comers.
You can examine all entries, here, and arrive at the same conclusion as the judges. Namely, that the surfing kick-out is unparalleled in both grace and beauty. That it is what separates us from the rest. That we should all be working on polishing our kick-out skills in order to impress babes at the beach.
But do you think that Medina’s countryman, and notable coward, Filipe Toledo is sad that he didn’t go viral for kicking out at Teahupo’o and, thus, never having to surf the scary place again? Mark already made?
I would be if I was he.
Huzzah, huzzah.
Back to the other World Sports Photography Awards nominees, though, which one is your actual favorite?
Me?
I’ve gotta go with the cycle fella being cheered on by French bakers even though I hate cycle fellas with a passion when I am driving on the streets at home.
Idiots.
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My favorite thing about this picture is how often Gabby haters are forced to look at it.
I’m sure the visual simile is apt, but the moral equivalence is dubious.
A lot of good people, alongside some not-so-good ones, have lost their homes.
Ah the withdrawl method.
Xox
p.s. cycling should be for school children and drug addicts. And especially drug addicted school children.
vicious cycling 101.
Hard disagree. Cycling should also be pushed on people with ADHD and restless leg syndrome. Burn off that excess energy
Squats and walking exactly like me!
Fuck your bike cunt!
Xox
another ounce?
Nothing about the LA fires yet? Is that because no one here’s believes in climate change?
I believe in Arson.
I believe in dumb cunts
No doubt.
Arson Daly?
Arsonio Hall
Arson Goggins
how dare you, what a vile thing to say.
Biden was more pro Gaza than Trump will ever be. Also the people in LA didn’t murder innocent women and children like Hamas
And just like that, no-one will remember the guy who actually won the gold medal.
Who did win the gold medal
Who’s on first?
Kauli vaast I think? And Caroline Marx?
Lets be honest here, we all always pictured Chad as a “cycle fella”. Fits right in with the wardrobe choices he makes and the insatiable desire to be a Euro.
Well deserved award. Combo of rider and photo maker. At a big time venue. The world was watching. Expect to see lots of these antics on wave pool tour events as time rolls by.
I hope all our LA-based BG family is safe.
the Little League image says it all….like Filipe paddling back to the boat in defeat, with perfect chopes being celebrated in the background.
Now…..THAT’S how you make a baseball photo surf adjacent! BOOM!
I guess the Q is how many times Bexy has self-pleasured to the winning picture.
That number changes daily! 😆
Once, Gabby satisfies for life.
Every professional surf photographer is so bummed they didn’t take that photo.
The are all bummed 😉
Xox
Le Yawn 🥱
hmmmm https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Soooooo……you’re saying…………there’s a man on the wing?
Jet fuel doesn’t melt steel testicles
But it would start softening them and cause their structural integrity to fail.
that’s why Nippon steel tried to take over US steel?
Do the math!
Xox
So are we starting a WKL (World Kickout League) or what? Guaranteed more online impressions and public interest than what we have now…
Public interest in surfing is bad for surfing
Bunch of fuckin NERDS!!
LFG