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For the first time since 2016 as a host nation, Brazil men's basketball team qualified by winning the 2024 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Riga, Latvia. [39] Team roster. A 14-player roster was announced on 11 July 2024. [40] Alexey Borges and Elinho Corazza were released and the final roster was announced on 23 July 2024. [41]
The event contributed towards qualification for the 2024 Olympics surfing competition in Teahupo'o, where surfing makes its second appearance as an Olympic sport. The top five men and top seven women eligible for qualification were each awarded a quota place.
On March 3, 2024, Medina won the men's final at the ISA World Surfing Games, which qualified him for the 2024 Olympic Games as Brazil's third competitor. [49] [50] During the Olympics, Medina had the highest single-wave score of the tournament with a 9.9, and a picture of his subsequent landing appearing to float in mid-air became viral. [51]
Medina's 9.90 was not only the highest score of the day, but the highest score in Olympic competition since the sport made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games in 2021. The resulting photo somehow ...
Images from the start of the first week of the 2024 Olympics. ... is being played on a temporary court outside the Eiffel Tower — the surfing competitions are nearly 10,000 miles away and 12 ...
Participants in the surf competitions will be the only ones not staying at the Olympic village on L'Île-Saint-Denis, and will instead stay on the ship M/V Aranui 5 anchored off Tahiti as the first floating Olympic village. [5] The surfing competition is also the only event held without spectators. [6]
Brazil’s Gabriel Medina appears to levitate during the men’s surfing competition in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, held in Teahupo’o, on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, on July 29.
Tatiana Guimarães Weston-Webb (born May 9, 1996 [1]) is a Brazilian surfer based in Kauai, Hawaii. [1] She is also both American and English. She was the only rookie on the professional surfing World Championship Tour in 2015.