"It’s hard to hold back because every wave, I was imagining how it would be to do an aerial."
You’ll recall shortly before the tour’s opener at Pipe this year the three-time world champ Gabriel Medina was forced to withdraw after his titty was nearly torn off following a pretty standard wipeout on a head-high beachbreak wave.
The thirty-one-year-old Olympic bronze medalist was rushed to hospital where surgeons reattached the recalcitrant titty, Medina writing from this hospital bed: “I was preparing and very focused for the 2025 season, but unfortunately I will be out for a while. I will now focus on my recovery to come back stronger!”
A few days back, the world nearly lost the once-in-a-generation talent after it was revealed Satanist pedophiles, including a recent deportee from the US, had planned bomb Lady Gaga’s historic concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, attended by over 2.1 million fans, including Gabriel Medina.
Water under the bridge, as they say, as Gabriel Medina made a triumphant return to the waves yesterday, surfing a Wavegarden Cove in Sao Paulo, which counts Gabriel and small-wave specialist Filipe Toledo as pool ambassadors.
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“The wave pool is an environment where I felt comfortable returning to surfing. Coming back from an injury, you need to take it slow—it’s hard to hold back because every wave, I was imagining how it would be to do an aerial, but it’s not the time yet,” Medina said.
“Here [in the wave pool], you paddle less, and there are waves of all kinds. It was really great; I never imagined I’d be surfing in the middle of São Paulo. I’m very happy.”
Most likely, Medina will make a late-year appearance at Teahupoo, a contest he has already won twice.
