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This Picture Of A Brazilian Surfer From The Paris Olympics Is 100% The Coolest Picture From The Olympics So Far

We already have some amazing photos from the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

A swimmer with a dark swim cap and goggles, mid-stroke underwater, creating splashes and bubbles around the face
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There's this picture of Simone Biles straight-up flying over the vault:

Simone Biles performs a vault at the Paris 2024 gymnastics competition, observed by an audience of spectators and photographers
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We have Tom Daley and Noah Williams jumping and dumping:

Two male divers, mid-dive, performing tuck positions off a diving board with "Paris 2024" and Olympic rings signage in the background
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And my personal favorite is any and every table tennis picture.

A young man with short hair and glasses intensely focuses while playing table tennis, hitting a ball with a red paddle
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There's just something so ominous about athletes staring at that little ball.

Focused athlete in action during a table tennis game, aiming at the ball with intense concentration
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But, alas, I think it's time to pack it up. We've got our best picture of the games, and it was taken during men's surfing in Tahiti.

A group of people wearing wetsuits swim in the ocean near a boat with a rainbow and lush mountains in the background
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Here it is:

Man appearing to levitate above the ocean while holding his surfboard, under a cloudy sky
Jerome Brouillet / AFP via Getty Images

That's Brazilian Gabriel Medina.

A surfer mid-air next to his surfboard above a wave, giving a raised thumb gesture with his right hand
Jerome Brouillet / AFP via Getty Images

The picture is rightfully going viral:

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This photographer said, "Paris Olympics photographs are already out of this world and we’re only a few days in."

Jerome Brouillet / AFP via Getty Images/Twitter: @brilewerke

Another person said it "belongs in a museum."

Jerome Brouillet / AFP via Getty Images/Twitter: @jeffpleshek

And a bunch of people are saying it looks straight out of the movie Arrival.

Jerome Brouillet / AFP via Getty Images/Twitter: @waggstowiches

Personally, it's giving "walking on water" to me.

Jerome Brouillet / AFP via Getty Images/Twitter: @AbbyHiggs

Bye!