Searching for 2017 Title of WORLD CHAMPION OF SURFING by Paulo Piqueres - surfworldtour.blogspot.com

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Searching for 2017 Title of WORLD CHAMPION OF SURFING by Paulo Piqueres - surfworldtour.blogspot.com
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It seems for me that in this season the decision for the Title of World Champion of Surfing will be in the last contest in Pipeline, Hawaii, USA. The top 4 surfers are separated for around a thousand points or less.The 2015 World Champion, A. de Souza(BRA)was defeated in Round 3 and fell down a position in the Ranking. G. Medina(BRA)arrived to the Final and went up two positions, kind of changed the position with F. Toledo(BRA)that was defeated in Round 2. Now the leader is the South African J. Smith(RSA)that arrived in Semifinals, he changed the position with M. Wilkinson(AUS)the previous leader, that was defeated in the Recap -Round 5 and fell down two positions so J. Smith(RSA) will wear the yellow jersey in Trestles, California. USA. The Hawaiian J. J. Florence(HAW)stayed in second position, and O. Wright(AUS)stayed in fourth position.C. O'Leary(AUS)stayed in the 10th position in Ranking Jeep Leaders.
I agree with G. Medina(BRA) when he said in interview to EXTRA Newspaper, Rio de Janeiro, August 11th, 2017(check the version on the blog)that anyone of Top 10 that win a contest has chance to clinch the World Title of Surfing.There are 40 thousand(40,000) points in game.

Now remains only four contests as follows:

September - Trestles, CA, USA;

October - France and Portugal;

December - Pipeline, Hawaii, USA.

Let's wait for, unfortunately I have no crystal ball to see the future. Perhaps in this season might have a new champion. In top 5, only J. J. Florence(HAW)is already World Champion, the others are fighting for the first title, however we "never" forget G. Medina(BRA)his excellent talent and performance in last two contests: Semifinals in Jeffreys Bay -South Africa, and Final in Teahupo'o -French Polynesia. A. de Souza(BRA) and J.J. Florence(HAW)also are World Champions and searching for bi championship.

Surf - "the most beautiful sport"

The text above was written by Paulo Piqueres - Postgraduated in Advanced English by PUC - Pontifície Universidade Católica - Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil
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