The American daily Washington Post (WP) reported on the 30th (local time) that a photo captured during a Brazilian athlete's victory ceremony in the Paris Olympics surfing competition is going viral online.
According to reports, Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina (30), who participated in the third round of the men's surfing preliminaries at the Paris Olympics held in Teahupoo, Tahiti, an island in French Polynesia, the day before, succeeded in a difficult technique and achieved one of the highest single wave scores in all Olympic surfing.
Medina, a three-time winner of the World Surfing League, checked his scores on the water and triumphantly jumped on the approaching wave, lifting his body into the air and raising his index finger in celebration.
The extraordinary photo has been spread on social networks, with Brazilians celebrating their surfer's passage to the quarterfinals of the competition.
