The viral picture of Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina in the men’s surfing round 3 at the Paris Olympics 2024 is all the buzz on social media Working with AFP, photographer Jerome Brouillet captured Medina in mid-air and since then, the picture has gone crazy online.Olympic Full Coverage | More Sports Stories from Olympics (Simone Biles Wons First)
Regarding the picture, Brouillet clicked Medina hovering in the air and with his right-arm pointing to the board next to him. Speaking with The Guardian, Brouillet claimed to have been “little bit shocked” by what he photographed.
“The circumstances were perfect,” he remarked. “The waves exceeded our anticipated height.”
“So Gabriel Medina is at the back of the wave and I can’t see him and then he pops out and I took four pictures and one of them was this one,” Brouillet said to the newspaper. ” Taking the photo was not difficult. It was more about timing the event and where Gabriel would start the tsunami.”
The responses he got were unanticipated as soon as he forwarded the picture to his editors.
“I was just checking my phone on the six-minute break after the shoot and I had lots of notifications on social media and I thought something is happening with this shot and it was shared on ESPN and I thought: ‘cool’,” Brouillet remarked.
People online quickly connected with the picture, which was sent right away to Brouillet’s managers.
Before he checked his social media accounts, Brouillet didn’t know how famous the picture was becoming.
“During the six-minute break after the shoot, I checked my phone and saw that I had a lot of social media notifications. I thought that something was going on with this shot,” he said.
“That picture is really cool; many people really like it.” More people are interested in it because it’s not really a surf picture.
Medina put the picture on his own Instagram, and more than 3.8 million people have already liked it.
“It’s a method to help the world to have better people and every time I’m in the water I am thinking about this and I have to do my job, but I’m glad with it. I get much affection wherever I go. Children adore me and this is a fantastic way of living. — Gabriel Medina
