Gabriel Medina vs Cole Houshmand | Vivo Rio Pro Presented By Corona 2024

[@cleideperes8762]

Torcendo sempre para o campeão THE BEST MEDINA 👏👏🏄‍♂️🤙🇧🇷

[@Mr.MWB.117]

Choosing this over Jbay is mind boggling

[@agathondmiurgus]

Market decision over surf. Its an industry

[@Mr.MWB.117]

@@agathondmiurgus Same situation with the scoring

[@Wetsand348]

Jbay had no government support.

[@stefan4974]

BR is more relevant than RSA in several aspects and Saquarema's wave is better than some waves on tour, they just had unlucky with the competition window.

[@saliseduardo4357]

Our athletes are very consistent anywhere 🌎and any conditions ! It is a pleasure for the Brazilian people have the chance to see them once a year in their backyard as the foreign fans have the chance to see their surfers 🏄‍♂️, in their home country by the way all the surfer love this event .

[@marcosFelipeMacedo-x5e]

medina humilha que orgulho do nosso garoto

[@mitchartist]

Seeing the pros in the usual grovel of the everyday surfer is weird but at the same time real.

[@leosurf1]

How you gonna decide a final 5 in this beach slop

[@GageChristopher]

i dont disagree that this is the worst stop on tour, but lowers is nothing like this. the shape of lowers is more of a reef break than a beach break. if you watched last years final, watched any clip of lowers, or surfed lowers many times like me, you would know what the wave is really like.

[@nicolasdavies4129]

its ridiculous how underscore airs are on the WSL

[@oBarbinha]

The judges giving that good wave 5.20 for Medina and 3.77 for that turn Cole did needs to be fired.

[@czarnpg]

Just a foam climb 🥴

[@andyprd7]

😅

[@GugaSchiller]

As a judge myself, after investigating the jugging mistakes in this heat, correcting both Medinas and Coles wrong scores, I give to Medina, just cause that frog jump by Cole is not even a junction manouver (ok the lip was heavy..) but less real surfing ; Its for sure something else hhh

[@wpwebdesign8768]

Não sou expert, mas foi uma bateria muito equilibrada. O mar não estava legal naquela hora. A bateria do Ítalo teve muito mais possibilidades. Qualquer que fosse o resultado haveria reclamação. Ao meu ver a última onda do Cole foi só uma subida em uma onda já fechada. A primeira dele foi boa e poderia ter tido um score melhor. Mas a do Medina, mesmo sendo mais mexida teve duas manobras e um bom aéreo. Ou seja, decisão equilibrada. Que bom que uma vez na vida o Medina ganhou sem ser inquestionável.

[@coisasdeeros]

Gabriel venceu! Não é possível que ao menos uma bateria polêmica não seja a seu favor pois desde que acompanho o tour todas as baterias polêmicas de Gabriel ele perdeu. O outro lado da moeda é JF que ganha 99% das baterias polêmicas como foi contra Medina em Margath River, contra Ethan Ewing em Pipe 2017 e tantas outras. Nada contra JF e Cole, apenas fatos.

[@rafaelpassos5470]

Exatamente!!

[@DomingosAugusto-pl4fl]

Para de ser chorão, segunda etapa seguida que o medina é favorecido! Você nem deve surfar.

[@MrYayanou]

Check JJF's heat in Jeffreys bay last year

[@rickbouwer4941]

Gave up Jbay for this? South 🌍

[@stefan4974]

BR is more relevant than RSA in several aspects and Saquarema's wave is better than some waves on tour, they just had unlucky with the competition window.

[@pablodagamamoreira619]

Não entendes exatamente NADA de surfe, amigo!!!

[@qrestoner]

Shut 🫘

[@matthewroy7718]

Saying it again..worst stop on tour. Lumpy, bumpy 4' slop.

[@BarbarraBay]

the worst surf for a contest. It too ugly to even watch the replay. Medina clearly won at Bells over Col, which was the worst injustice. Imagine if Medina lost again in a close heat in this rubbish surf. Waves @1:54 = 4.00 ; @3:01 = 5.50 ; @3:52 = 4.40 ; @4:41 = 5.20 ; @6:12 = 3.77

[@naeselooto4352]

Tired of the commentators acting like the waves are good

[@evertonwagner1496]

Como que o aereo do medina recebeu nota menor que o aereo do gringo cara, nao sei como nao deram um jeitinho nessa ultima onda e elimanaram o medina.

[@ronaldbronson1285]

Medina had a smaller wave, less critical section, and flat spin. Coles wave bigger, steeper section, tail high.

[@fabios.p4525]

Im Brazilian, but that Cole first air was more than 5,5!! But Medina have worked harder..

[@esdubya]

Suckarema, are you joking this is unbelievably tragic.

[@FluidSurfing]

3'77 for that huge turn.... No comment!

[@themythicllama2841]

😞

[@Samuel-zh8wu]

Laugh now cry later

[@juliano7046]

A wsl é uma piada, sempre rouba de acordo com a etapa, o Medina foi diversas vezes roubado, mas como essa etapa é no Brasil é lógico que eles vão favorecer ele. O problema é o público ficar calado quando está sendo beneficiado pelo sistema, pois uma hora será prejudicado por ele.

[@andyprd7]

Foam climb

[@FluidSurfing]

@@andyprd7 yes but that changed to a critical aerial

[@korocam9137]

Surfers earning their money today.

[@czarnpg]

The Cole's air, if was medina's air, would be a 3,2.

[@BarbarraBay]

don't get caught up in the close camera work. here is the wave at distance @3:01 in the video. the air itself is not 2.3 points better than Gabriel's air @4:52. Plus Gabriel did some turns before his air, which is 1.0 points just for those turns. Col does one turn @3:03, a horizontal 150 degree high tail throw air, landing tail forward, for 5.50. To repeat, Col's air is not even 180 degrees in the air and he lands tail forward before bring it around. Gabriel does two turns for 1.0 and does a more stylish somewhat flat 270+ degree air for 4.4 @4:54. Not as tail high as Col's air but more suspended. The scoring looks right; even a little generous towards Col.

[@gustavo299]

r u crazy bro....cole not even close complete the full turn, he land in backwards....thats an incomplete air, at least 3 points he deserves

[@BarbarraBay]

@@gustavo299 yes. people are fooled by the high tail but Col landed it backwards on the face. Col is full of smoke & mirror tricks; like doing flat turns on the face at Bells but shooting lots of spray. Gabriel is a complete committed surfer.

[@JairLaird]

Col's air, underscored, it looked superb with just the flow of the displaced water, and the style and positioning. Poster Photo, for the Event.

[@BarbarraBay]

@@JairLaird fake

[@paulorf33]

Os americanos queriam quanto na escala da espuma do cole???? Não entendi tanta choradeira......hahahaha😂😂😂

[@jamesaldrich9754]

basic surfing that I saw just as good or better way as far back as 1980.Guys doing 360's at will etc.

[@lukerips1]

Low scoring scale in that heat but at least they stayed consistent. Get some professional gymnastics scorers instead of old surf bums.

[@paulotiba1272]

Roubaram o Medina, se arrependeram e roubaram o Cole

[@xeroxholmes5250]

Quase que o Medina foi roubado

[@saliseduardo4357]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏10🫡👀

[@carlosmagno581]

Saquarema better than Bells

[@SurfPro-ct5xu]

Medina escapou na sorte porque a onda do cole nao abriu

[@yeahno1413]

Nah.

[@naeselooto4352]

Hopefully the Olympics pump

[@russellkasprzyk4934]

So much better than stupid J bay 😅

[@chrishubbard1442]

They are in Gabriels home country. I give that last wave by House as a 4.5 and a heat victory. Competition is always going to be a little unfair. To win, you have to win big when you are in the other guys home.

[@JogaPraCima]

😢😢😢😢😢😢 se for chorar manda áudio gringo, deu sorte que o mar tava pequeno

[@qrestoner]

Speaks in english

[@davidhavard1908]

We all knew that was the way . Sh----t

[@linkfiladelfia4985]

Medina pegou 9 ondas e o americano 2 e Medina quase perde a bateria essa wsl é uma piada, essa última onda do americano valia 2.50 no máximo.

[@jpvgalvao]

YOU AMERICANS ARE VERY CRYING😂

[@timanctil8225]

Pot, meet kettle...

[@estebanlucas240]

Cole win, he was robbed