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Subject: Re: Timing - know your subject - Olympics
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 04:22:00 +0200
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Op 30/07/2024 om 14:55 schreef Alan Browne:
> 
>  From the surfing competition (taking place about 16,000 km from Paris).
> 
> Monday, the famous waves of Teahupo’o gave Gabriel Medina a ride to 
> remember. The Brazilian star made the most of the moment — as did a 
> photographer who caught Medina in a remarkable pose of celebration.
> 
> The image, captured by Jerome Brouillet for Agence France-Presse, showed 
> Medina and his tethered board appearing to perform parallel levitations 
> above the South Pacific Ocean. Rather than a scene of serenity, however, 
> the photo told a striking tale of the Olympics’ competitive spirit, 
> given that Medina was using his right arm and raised index finger to 
> make a “No. 1” gesture while in midair.
> 
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/5TTUYT33WZ2KOLF2JVXOVWWU2I_size-normalized.jpg&w=1200
> 
> “I was not surprised about that, I was prepared,” the 39-year-old 
> photographer, who has been shooting surfing and other sports for most of 
> a decade, said in a phone interview Monday evening. “I and the other 
> photographers on the boat were supposing he was going to make a 
> kick-out, and that’s what he did.
> “So I pushed the button,” he added with a laugh.
> 
> <WaPo>
> 
> Alas - there is no technical detail in the image file that I DL'd.
> Elsewhere perhaps.
> 
> As to the location, the surf conditions there are exceptionally compact 
> and fierce.  Fro shore you would barely know there were big surf-able 
> waves.
> 

Looks like an iconic pic.. on X there is a version with better quality:

https://i.imgur.com/Gf8sdcY.jpeg

The clouds under his feet look kinda weird.. almost like he's standing 
on a platform.