Stretching out on the world’s best beach won’t come easy. With exciting “Final’s Day” at Lower Trestles, it all but guarantees that there will be a Brazilian champion this year, next year, ad infinitum.Īdding insult to injury, the land of Order and Progress just snagged the very coveted Tripadvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Award for “world’s best beach,” punching America’s Huntington and Australia’s Whitsunday straight in the teeth. Gabriel Medina, Brazilian, champion before that and Italo Ferreira, Brazilian, champion before that. Filipe Toledo, the current World Surf League champion, is Brazilian. Well, fast forward and what do we have but utter Brazilian dominance. Certainly American, Australian, French wave aficionados were aware that Rio de Janeiro existed and that James Bond might have once been filmed there (the shockingly under-appreciated Moonraker) but that was mostly it. The South American country was, but a decade or such ago, an afterthought in the surf world.
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