Surfing
Surfing: Alonso Correa (PER) advances to semi-finals
Surfing fast and hitting the lip with absolute authority, Alonso Correa of Peru has won heat #1 of the quarter finals.
Despite scoring the heat’s highest single wave with a 7.33, Japan’s Inaba Reo has been eliminated. His score came on an impressive tube ride where the goofy foot took off under the lip, stood up in the barrel, and completely dissappeared behind a thick curtain.
But it was the Peruvian, known better for his tube riding than his turns, who kept his Olympic dreams alive by surfing with flow and violent, gouging turns and lip bashes. Correa (PER) advanced with a total heat score of 10.50 to Inaba’s 10.16.