OLYMPICS: Surfer Gabriel Medina seen defying the laws of Physics in viral photo from 2024 Summer Olympics

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It was a historic day in Olympic surfing today in the Men’s Round 3 action at Teahupo’o, French Polynesia. The image was taken at Teahupo ‘o where Gabriel Medina had just come out of a rapid section of a fierce wave, and he looked at the camera with satisfaction as he painted the pose. While the picture gained public interest in a few days, the photographer, Brouillet has now commented on his work, which turned into an overnight sensation. The photo — captured by Jerome Brouillet from Agence France-Presse on Monday, July 29 — depicted Medina getting suspended in midair, with his left hand pointed to the sky and his right hand holding on to a surfboard behind him.

***A picture of Medina floating in above water went viral.*** Credits: *Jerome Brouillett/AFP/Getty Images*

The picture — taken by photographer Jerome Brouillet from Agence France-Presse on Monday, July 29 — appeared to show Medina floating in midair, his hand in the air and his finger pointed to the sky as his surfboard hovered behind him. It was shot in Teahupo’o on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti, where the Paris Games’ surfing competition is taking place in the Olympics 2024 Monday’s event, the third round of competition.

When AFP photographer Jerome Brouillet set out to shoot the third day of the Olympic Games surfing competition in Tahiti on Monday, he couldn’t have predicted that he’d capture one of the most iconic moments of the Games so far.

**The Brazilian three-time world champion Gabriel Medina rode through a historic huge wave.**

Photographer Jérôme Brouillet has revealed how he captured what has widely been described as one of the best ever images of the Olympic Games – while shooting over 10,000 miles from Paris. The Agence France-Presse professional photographer took the picture of a lifetime of the surfer Gabriel Medina’s airborne celebrations in the fifth heat of the men’s surfing. In one of the most memorable images of the Games so far, the photograph of the Brazilian competitor showed him with his arm raised, and his surfboard perfectly lined up with him by his side.

**“That day, Gabriel was in the water at the right place, at the right time, and so was I,” Brouillet wrote on Instagram.**

Speaking to AFP, he spoke about how the picture came about through a mix of good fortune and experience, saying: “Every photographer is waiting for that. You know Gabriel Medina, especially at Teahupo’o will kick off and do something, You know something is going to happen, [and] the only tricky moment is where he is going to kick out?”

“When I’m shooting at Teahupo’o I don’t shoot in such a high burst mode, because at the end of the day, if you push too hard on the button, you come back with 5,000 shots in a day, and I don’t like that! I got four shots of him out of the water, and one of the four shots was this photo.”

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