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Fans Applaud Surfer Kelly Slater After He Wins Tournament Days Before 50th Birthday: 'GOAT Of All Sports Legends'
Surfer Kelly Slater is being lauded as the "best ever" in the wake of winning the Billabong Pro Pipeline only days before his 50th birthday celebration.

On Saturday, Slater, who turns 50 on 11 February, denoted his eighth Pipe Masters win when he won the title in Hawaii against 24-year-old contender Seth Moniz, whose father recently went up against the riding legend. 메이저사이트

The accomplishment was particularly great considering it came almost 30 years after the surfer turned into the most youthful World Champion when he won his first World Title in 1992 at 20 years old, as per World Surf League (WSL).

While the success was Slater's eighth World Surf League Championship Tour on the Banzai Pipeline, it denoted the 56th in general visit win for the 11-time World Champion, the Associated Press reports.

Following the amazing presentation of physicality, fans and big names have acclaimed Slater for the accomplishment, with Matthew McConaughey sharing a photograph of himself and the surfer and stating: "The GOAT @kellyslater still the best a couple of days before 50," while Chris Hemsworth composed on Instagram: "Congratulations @kellyslater, most prominent ever, what a motivation."

"This is one of the most crazy accomplishments in all of sports history. 49-year-old @kellyslater just won his eighth Pipeline crossing forty years. Absolutely INCREDIBLE!" someone else tweeted, while another person expressed: "At 50 years old Kelly Slater is rivaling folks a large portion of his age and winning. Such an unbelievable competitor."

One fan shared photographs of Slater after the opposition, alongside numerous goat emoticons, and stated: "Kelly Slater winning Pipeline 30 years after his first Pipeline win is one of the most great accomplishments in sports, not to mention surfing."

Following the success, Slater let WSL know that the accomplishment was the "best win of my life".

"I was out there simply telling myself, be at the time regardless of how much strain there is, inhale," Slater said while considering the opposition. "I said simply stay at the time, absorb it, regardless of whether he beats you, simply love everything. I submitted my life to this. To all of this. To the entirety of the grievousness and winning and this poop, you know, I've loathed loads of it, however I enjoy this and this is the best success of my life."