Gabriel Medina leapt from his surfboard, raised his finger aloft and his board just managed to fly parallel to him as photographer Jerome Brouillet from Agence France-Presse snapped the shot.
Surfer Gabriel Medina was taking on Kanoa Igarashi, the man who beat him at the Tokyo Olympics and eventually won silver, and he was looking to turn the tide this time around.
Brazil's Gabriel Medina reacts after getting a large wave, during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Tahiti, on July 29, 2024. "The conditions were perfect, the waves were taller than we expected," Brouillet told The Guardian. "So he is at the back of the wave and I can't see him and then he pops up and I took four pictures and one of them was this one.
"It's very cool, it's a nice shot and lots of people love it. It's not really a surf photograph so it captures the attention of more people."
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