Gabriel Medina headlined the surfing competition on the men's side as he, Alonso Correa, Kauli Vast and Jack Robinson all punch their tickets to the semifinals. Watch the 2024 Paris Olympics on NBC ...

Gabriel Medina now has a singular focus: the comeback. Photo: Beatriz Ryder//World Surf League Gabriel Medina’s withdrawal from the 2025 season (thus far) came more than four months ago now and with ...

Back in January, less than a month before the kickoff to the 2025 World Surf League Championship Tour, three-time world champ Gabriel Medina withdrew from the season indefinitely. He had suffered a ...

This season, there’s a Gabriel Medina sized hole on the Championship Tour. Just a month before the kickoff to the 2025 season, the three-time world champion, hailing from Brazil, suffered a pectoral ...

The Brazilian athlete earned the highest single-wave score in Olympic history Dave Quinn is the Deputy News Director at PEOPLE. He has been working at the brand since 2016, and is the author of the No ...

It was a celebration worthy of the ages - or at least viral fame. Surfer Gabriel Medina was taking on Kanoa Igarashi, the man who beat him at the Tokyo Olympics and eventually won silver, and he was ...

Kauli Vaast of France and Caroline Marks of the United States are the second-ever surfing gold medalists after winning in Tahiti on Monday. Marks defeated Tatiana Weston-Webb of Brazil 10.50 to 10.33 ...