“The guy is a three-time champion and has no prestige in the League. That’s unreal. It borders on disrespect.”
Much handwringing and wet brown cheeks for Brazilian surf fans at the start of the week when the WSL announced the two wildcards for the Teahupoo grand slam were being given to two Tahitians.
Medina, it was reported, wanted to compete at Teahupoo but was told the wildcards were already allocated to Olympic gold medallist Kauai Vaast and the winner of the trials event, Mihimana Braye.
Feedback from Brazilian surf fans included,
“Medina is more popular than the League itself. That pisses them off. LOL.”
“The guy is a three-time champion and has no prestige in the League. That’s unreal. It borders on disrespect.”
“REGRETTABLE WSL!!!! IF IT WERE KELLY SLATER ASKING, THEY WOULD HAVE DONE EVERYTHING TO MAKE IT WORK!!!”
Gabriel Medina, whose dark intelligent eyes and the sweet gravity of his mouth lends his face a noble calm, a great beauty it has to be said, refused the offer of an injury wildcard should it come up saying it would be too last-minute.
The narrative shifted yesterday when Alejo Muniz withdrew from Teahupoo after getting winged at Jeffrey’s Bay giving Medina two weeks before the waiting period begins.
Hopes the triple world champ and six-time finalist and two-time winner at Teahupoo would appear were swiftly dashed when Medina told the WSL he had “scheduling commitments.”
The card goes to Teiva Tairoa, the thirty five year old who came second in the trials.
View this post on Instagram
Commented on Disqus? Log out, tap the Disqus button, and your old name and comments come back. The box is ours.
Your comments are still here. Every one of them.
Twelve years of BeachGrit comments came across from Disqus. Connect and we will show you how many are yours. We get your username, nothing else.
Connect Disqus to reveal.
So Gabby maintains kontrol over the shot. If Ben Lowe had’ve selfied da Straddie Boyz shot, well then Gabby might’ve been consistently scored low enough that he wouldn’t have bothered with the move that tore his tit and this whole scenario wouldn’t be happening. A butterfly captures himself flapping his wings…
It’s nice when you’re so rich you don’t need to work anymore
Should have offered that wildcard to Bobby along with a can of tennis balls as a peace offering
but what if your phone runs away from home and you have to report it missing? I’d think you’d want that photo of your phone so that you can post it as missing on Nextdoor and Frank, who lives five blocks away from you, goes on a diatribe about how irresponsible of a phone owner you are.
In other words proffesional surfing really is not that important. Well done GM to finally pushing it out there, pro surfing is for teenage dreamers and kooks.
Easy explanation, you’re old (so am I). Bathroom selfies are apparently cool too. Weird days.
Pretty sad the two best guys out there: Matahi Drollet and Eimeo Czermak will be watching from the channel.
They need an hour and a half window that shows up every two months to shine.
Like a petulant child.
But don’t get me wrong, I would have loved to see he surf and win this event.
Oh man that’s deep. 3 reflections. 3 world titles. And last one his back to the wsl. The guy’s an artist ! Like Frida Carlo or summin
Did I ever yell ya about the time I was on an el cheapo flight from London to Amsterdam in the cheapest of the cheap seats, and the Right Said Fred brothers were in the row behind me (at the height of their fame a few months after that song was topping the charts) ?
Either they were total skinflints, or they never made a penny off it…
Did I ever tell you about the time I was flying home from Sydney when I spotted the whole WSL walking through airport heading to Jbay? I was eating my last meat pie of the trip when I saw Ronnie and his kid from afar. The kid was wearing one of those outback hats which seemed off to me. My senses were right because when they got close enough I realized it wasn’t his kid but actually Glenn Micro Hall.
ha…story never told “us”
Boo.
Green Jacket, Gold Jacket who gives a shit
The chick or dude he is meant to be holidaying with better be fucken hot.
What a disappointment.
Xox
Gab couldn’t change the appointment he had for a full body Brazilian wax. It’s a “thing” among his fans too.
Waxing his pits instead of waxing some pits