‘Conditions were perfect’: how the breathtaking image of Olympic surfer Gabriel Medina was taken
On a distant reef 16,000km from Paris, surfer Gabriel Medina has given Olympic viewers one of the most memorable images of the Games yet, with an airborne celebration so well poised it looked too good to be true....
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