Paris Olympics: Brazilian surfer's MINDBOGGLING image goes VIRAL, photographer HAILED for brilliant capture

The Paris Olympics 2024 edition continues to make news. An image from the mega eventis making heads turn on social media platforms. Most of the sports lovers have already seen the image.A news agency photographer named Jerome Brouillet, working with AFP, clicked Brazilian Olympic surfer Gabriel Medina paddle into one of the day’s biggest waves at one of the world’s heaviest surf breaks during the men's surfing Round 3 on Monday (July 29). Little did Brouillet know that his picture, where Medina is kicking out of the wave after a ride that led to a record Olympics score, in Tahiti, wouldbe regarded as a global sensation.

Notably, Brouillet was on a boat in the channel — an area of deeper, calmer water to the side of the wavewithout a clear line of sight of the initial action. He, however, was in prime spot waiting for the Brazilian to "kick out" -- exit the wave face at the conclusion of his run when Brouillet clicked him. The moment of capture is so brilliant thatit shows the surfer leaping from his surfboard and raising his finger in celebration of his Olympic triumph, with his surfboard pointing skyward parallelly.

As a result, evenMedinashared the clickcourtesy an Instagram post.

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Here is the VIRAL post:

After the photo went viral, Brouillet said, as per a report in News18, "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. The only tricky moment is where he is going to kick out? Because I’m blind! Sometimes he makes an acrobatic gesture and this time he did that and so I pushed the button."

'Got four shots of him out of the water and onewas this photo'

Brouillet further opined, "I think that when he was in the tube he knew that he was in one of the biggest waves of the day. He is jumping out of the water like ‘man, I think this is a 10'. 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."

The image has done its trick. It has already been used by various publications worldwide and garnered plenty of likeson social media platforms.

Reportedly, TIME magazine has labelled the imageas "the defining image of triumph of the 2024 Summer Games".