FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Surfing - Men's Bronze Medal Match - Teahupo'o, Tahiti, French Polynesia - August 05, 2024. Gabriel Medina of Brazil in action during the bronze medal match. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
TEAHUPO'O, Tahiti (Reuters) - Gabriel Medina is a competitive surfing machine. A jewellery-clad, helicopter-riding superstar, the Brazilian is a tattooed terminator who paddles faster, pulls into the tube deeper and flies higher than just about anyone who ever rode a surfboard.
John John Florence is something else entirely.
