"Show especial de Mineirinho - EXTRA Newspaper, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Friday, May 19th, 2017 -NAS ONDAS -RICO DE SOUZA -esportesprj@extra.inf.br

Show especial de Mineirinho - EXTRA Newspaper, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Friday,  May 19th, 2017 -NAS ONDAS -RICO DE SOUZA -esportesprj@extra.inf.br
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 Special Show of Mineirinho
 

An event that drove us to the golden days of Saquarema of the 70's, at the time of the festivals. The city breathed surf for 10 days and it was all very beautiful. Good waves enthusiastic and polite fans, party in the city and Brazilians were surfing very well, especially Adriano de Souza, Mineirinho, the great winner of the Brazilian stage of the World Tour. He won all the heats, was a Champion in an uncontestable way and entered in fact into the fight for World Title.

Mineirinho, at my opinion, is a special athlete, obstinated, focused, humble and knows how to compete like no one else. He knows to do exactly what the judges want to see. Mineirinho, pride of Brazilians!

Next, the highlight was the absence of Kelly Slater, who claimed back pain. After was Yago Dora to pass through the difficult Trial of the event, for tracking his way in the main competition.

Yago, no doubt, was the great surprise in Itaúna. He overcame World Champion John John Florence masterfully in the Round 3, then defeated Gabriel Medina in the  Round 5, which was perhaps the best "heat" of the event. In the Quarterfinals passed by the Australian Mick Fanning, when it took the fans to the delirium, he was defeatre only in the Semifinal for Mineirinho. Yago shows that he will give what to say yet. It was only the beginning of its trajectory.
The negative highlight of Brazil was the early defeat of Filipe Toledo in the Round 3 of the competition for American Kanoa Igarashi. The surfer did interference in the opening wave of the heat and discounted his anger in the judges when trying to invade the area destined and reserved to them inside the structure.Filipe apologized for his behavior but received a fine from WSL and is suspended from the next stage, in Fiji.

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CLASSIFICATION
1.John John Florence(HAW): 24,750
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2.Adriano de Souza(BRA): 24,400
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2.Jordy smith(RSA): 24,400
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2.Owen Wright(AUS):24,400
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Version by Paulo Piqueres - Postgraduate in Advanced English -PUC -Pontifície Universidade Católica -Porto Alegre -RS - Brazil
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