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How The Professional Surfing Tour Looks To Ride The Olympic Wave 

It was during Tuesday's title match between world No 1 Gabriel Medina and individual Brazilian Filipe Toledo that a six to eight foot shark was spotted penetrating the opposition region. 메이저사이트

"A shark has penetrated the side of the line-up and it's around six to eight foot so we will look through the line-up and ensure it's gone," World Surf League (WSL) head of contest Jessie Miley-Dyer said during the live transmission of the WSL Rip Curl Finals at Lower Trestles, California. 

The occasion was required to be postponed with 18 minutes left in the match as visit authorities mixed to clear the line-up and guarantee that competitors were out of danger. Mick Fanning, the resigned Australian three-time title holder, turned out to be in the editorial corner close by Kelly Slater at that point and facetiously reviewed his own nerve racking experience with shark during a 2015 visit contest at Jeffreys Bay in South Africa. "They're presumably searching for my telephone number just to illuminate me," Fanning said of the finalists as they were lifted out of the water. 

The shark locating added to the force of what was at that point a noteworthy day in the realm of surfing. Under another arrangement presented a while prior, the people positioned in the best five toward the finish of the WSL season equipped for the one-day competition at San Clemente's Lower Trestles, a famous west coast riding objective where superior waves break over a cobblestone base, to choose the title holders. And keeping in mind that the thrilling new organization was important for the WSL's endeavor to gain by the post-Olympic swell of fan interest in the game, it isn't without its contentions.