Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil-bashing is so 2011.
Brazil has its first world champ, deservedly so.
Brazil has dazzling, electrifying free surfers.
Brazil is supplying rookies to the Tour each so good that they’re game changers, not number maker uppers.
But. The Rio event?
The wave itself, last year anyway, wasn’t even that bad. I mean, I love a half second tube as much as much as the next surfer.
And despite a cred shot in the arm from the Spartan winning (imagine the hater hysterics if Alejo had won…) on the whole, the event reeks decidedly… WQS-y.
Rio, amazing place to host the World Cup, sans doubt.
Certainly a fab venue for the Games of Olympiad, next year.
But a surf event in May? It doesn’t take a surf travel agent/oceanographer/genius to work that surely the world would be a better place if we instead sent the cunts to Indonesia and said, ‘Entertain us.’
Huh?
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