Adriano de Souza's victory speech - video
Emotional and unscripted - hey, there you go WSL! - Adriano's beachside victory speech was all class. In deferring to his deceased friend, Ricardo dos Santos, and also to his rival - "I thought Mick deserved it more than me" - Adriano's humility and respect shone through.
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It was his brother who bought him a surfboard not RDS.
Congrats to Adriano however for the Fanning/ Medina semi to be decided on an air especially late in the heat seemed a bit odd.
The Fanning/Medina heat was the end of my watching of the WSL comps. One of the last bastions of real surfing has now gone to this insidious Air Game. For anybody to be beaten by a bloody chop hop at Pipeline was the last straw for me. I hope that Mick and Joel retire and leave the kids to this skateboarding on water as it seems that no matter how good your carve game is, it aint enough.
A worthy Champion for sure! A heart felt speech. Love seeing honest emotion spill over.
Well done Ads.
x 2 Rabs.
Bad luck Mick but he'll be back next year.
ADS has come a long way over the last ten years. He's really put in the hard yards and is a deserving World Champion. What a great role model for young Brazillian surfers too. Well done mate.
Dooma & CJ will be stoked too.