This shot of Gabriel Medina is ABSOLUTELY UNREAL 🤯 😱
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) July 29, 2024
( 📸: Jerome Brouillet) pic.twitter.com/4JQNI4olsi
Here we see Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina celebrating after riding a perfect wave, scoring a 9.9 during the qualifying round of the 2024 Olympics. The surfing events are happening in Tahiti, 15,700 kilometers (8400 miles) from Paris. Medina is so happy he's levitating above the water, along with his tethered surfboard!
The full, uncropped photo shows even more. This picture has not been Photoshopped. It was taken by surf photographer Jerome Brouillet, who knows how to capture a moment in time, but this borders on magical. To understand how serendipitous this image is, here is the video sequence showing when it was caught.
Now picture where Brouillet had to be positioned to get the picture. The shot is one in a million, or maybe even one in a billion. Medina may well go on to achieve a gold medal, but he is already a star for posing while flying through the air with a surfboard. -via reddit