Medina turning attention to Tokyo Olympics

Source: Xinhua| 2018-12-23 08:37:12|Editor: mmm
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SAO PAULO, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Gabriel Medina said he will turn his focus to qualifying for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after securing his second world surfing title.

The Brazilian received a hero's welcome in Sao Paulo on Saturday, having pipped Australian Julian Wilson to the championship in the season-ending Pipeline Masters in Hawai earlier in the week.

"It [2019] is going to be a very important year for me, I want to be at 200%," the 25-year-old told reporters. "The Olympics are coming and I want to qualify to go to Japan."

Under the Olympic qualifying system, the top 10 male surfers from next year's world tour will earn an automatic berth at the Tokyo Games, with a limit of two places for competitors from the same country.

Medina said he felt this year would be special from the outset, describing his second triumph in five years as a "dream come true".

"I believed in myself from the beginning," he said. "I felt different from the beginning. I was Brazil's first surfing world champion [in 2014] and now I've done it again."

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