“Should Be Fun”: Weeks Before WSL Event at 2024 Olympics Site, Brazilian Surfing Prodigy Shares Honest Confession

Joao Chianca, a 22-year-old Brazilian surfer, has been making waves in the 2023 WSL season. The surfer took everyone by surprise at the start of the 2023 season by winning the MEO Rip Curl Portugal Pro. After the surfer won his first World Surf League (WSL) event, he was awarded the coveted yellow jersey. Despite the Brazilian surfer’s recent string of losses, he has experienced the sweet taste of glory. The surfer has let the waves speak for him this year as the wild ride of a season culminates in Tahiti, the site of the 2024 Paris Olympic surfing competition.

On August 11, 2023, the Tahiti Pro will begin, and surfers are already training for the ferocious Hawaiian waves. In addition to the greater danger to the competitors’ lives because of merciless Hawaiian waves, the Tahiti Pro would be the last event on the WSL schedule before the Rip Curl Finals. The Brazilian surfing prodigy has come out with a frank admission regarding the waves in Tahiti on his social media account before the competition.

Before the big surfing challenge ahead

Teahupo’o is a hamlet on the southwestern coast of Tahiti, French Polynesia, and it is well-known among surfers worldwide. The large waves are a draw for adventure seekers, and in 2024, the Olympics will have surfing contests there. Brazilian surfer Joao Chianca has aspirations as enormous as the ocean’s waves. The surfer included some photos and videos of the WSL event location in his Instagram post, writing, “Should be fun.” The Brazilian prodigy is now ranked number four on the Championship Tour, and he is well aware that a bad performance at Teahupo’o may be the end of his chances of winning the yellow jersey.

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The first image in this post is a monochrome masterpiece, capturing the surfer in a perfect barrel. The second video in the Instagram post shows the surfer exiting the barrel perfectly and riding it in style. Another clip highlights the surfer’s barrel-riding abilities, a common scoring strategy in WSL competitions. As Hawaii is a surfer’s paradise, the remainder of the piece included photos of him having a fantastic time there.

The surfer was only being honest when he said that, although the waves in Hawaii are beautiful to ride, there is always an element of danger involved with surfing.

The 2023 WSL season for the Brazilian surfer

Joao Chianca was unprepared for the 2022 WSL season. But in 2023, the young surfing superstar returned in a big way. In the first two WSL competitions, the Billabong Pro Pipeline and the Hurley Pro Sunset Beach, he placed third both times. He took that hunger to the MEO Rip Curl Portugal Pro, where he defeated Australian surfer Jack Robinson to take first place.

Chianca won the MEO Rip Curl Portugal Pro, but he finished third in the Margaret River Pro, losing to Gabriel Medina. Despite a string of early eliminations that have dropped him to fourth in the rankings, the surfer is still in contention for a spot in the WSL Finals by scoring well in the Tahiti Pro.

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