"This change to no longer having to pay for the trophy was largely due to the change in CEO, who has been doing a GREAT JOB."
It was one of the more surreal revelations to come out of an obscure Brazilian interview with three-time world champ Gabriel Medina – in 2021 the League had charged him $30,000 for the official trophy commemorating his title.
The claim about the trophy highlighted an undisclosed practice by the WSL and cast a long shadow over the sport’s governing body.
Gabriel Medina explained that the trophy he received was a replica, not the original.
“I was waiting for my third world title,” Medina told the channel. “Then the guy said, ‘Do you want one of these? 30,000 dollars.’”
The cost, equivalent to roughly 160,000 Brazilian reais, stunned Medina, who possessed the original trophies from his 2014 and 2018 victories, and didn’t pay a cent for either of ‘em.
“I’ve never told anyone,” he added, breaking his silence on the issue.
This year’s champion, the doe-eyed Yago Dora, a man without an enemy and a friend to all apparently, has been spared the thirty-gee slug according to his fashion model girlfriend Isa Sermann, click here to see Isa guzzle from water bottle.
Sermann said the new-ish World Surf League CEO Ryan Crosby, disgraced former CEO Erik Logan’s eventual replacement, was responsible for the shift in company policy.
The WSL even offered to ship it to Brazil. However, since the trophy needed to arrive with Yago, we opted to pay for it ourselves. I believe this change to no longer having to pay was largely due to the change in CEO, who has been doing a GREAT JOB.
It marks Ryan Crosby’s third strike against Elo’s policies: the mid-year sackings, the Finals Day, and now paid trophies, all Elo’s initiatives and all of ’em cut down by Crosby’s sabre.
Crosby getting the ring, Elo getting the finger as they say.
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30k for that lump of tin , no fucken way im calling total bullshit.
Good on ya Yago…. Isa an absolute smoke show.
It was a good sign when he fired JMD after she let the girls bully her into not running the women’s heats at Marg’s on that big day
If I was Gabriel I would have told them to kick rocks and had my own made in Brazil for pennies on the dollar.
Trump has requested all the original trophy’s ?
And two double quarter pounders with cheese, a large fries, and a medium diet coke.
and don’t forget donny wants real sugar in his diet coke…..
What is Sophie getting then (ring and finger taken)?
Fingered bumhole.
xoxo
Isa kicking down the cone of silence. Do you know who’s doing a great job, Isa? YOU. Stay hidrated.
Imagine telling the Broncos or Storm “You’ve gotta pay for that”
bahaha wsl …so yesterday
Good on this Crosby fella but to be fair, improving on the work Elo did as a CEO was always going to be a very low bar