Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Brazillian wildcard Bruno Santos defeated fellow wildcard Manoa Drollet in the finals of the Billabong Pro Tahiti today. Surfing stars such as CJ Hobgood, Taj Burrow, Kelly Slater and Joel Parkinson fell to one or the other with Parkinson losing to Drollet and Hobgood to Santos in the semi ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The day after defending world champ Mick Fanning was knocked out of the Billabong Pro Tahiti a slew of other top surfers were shown the exit as wildcards dominated the day.
Wildcard Manoa Drollet (above) knocked out Slater in Round three today while Taj Burrow fell to Brazilian Bruno Santos but ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
It's been two years since Mick Fanning was knocked out of an ASP World Tour contest in the second round and Tuesday it happened again... at the same place. In 2006 Fanning made an early exit in Tahiti and this year Brazilian wildcard Bruno Santos made his stay a short ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Damien Hobgood has officially withdrawn from the Billabong Pro Tahiti after breaking his shoulder last month. He had been hoping to be healed enough to make the event, but with it expected to kick off today, time ran out.
“I wanted to wait until the last minute to see if it ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
It doesn't look like there will be any action this weekend in Tahiti at the Billabong Pro. After a lay day was announced for today it appears conditions won't be good enough until early next week. There are seven days left in the holding period for the contest.
Once ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
The Billabong Pro Tahiti started its holding period today and due to less than optimum conditions a lay day was called.
"We had a good look at it and we are opting not to run today,” Contest Director Luke Egan said. “I watched it for an hour last night and if ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
ASP World Tour surfer Ben Bourgeois took his first WQS event of the season by edging fellow World Tour surder Freddy Patacchia in a four-man final that also included Joel Centeio and San Clemente local Patrick Gudauskas.
For Gudauskas, the fourth place finish gives him the current lead on the ASP ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Kelly Slater's making his first visit to Fuel's "The Daily Habit" and given his two wins to open the ASP World Tour and the upcoming Billabong Pro Tahiti, no doubt there will be some good stuff to talk about. Who knows -- they may even get around to talking about ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Nixon watches begins its mini WTA (winner-take-all) tour on May 8 at the Billabong Pro Tahiti. Nixon gives a pretty sick watch worth $10K to the top surfer in four different categories in different contests (heaviest wave, longest tube, highest heat and the winner of the Vans Triple Crown).
Manoa Drollet ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
After an exhausting 23-heat marathon, Adam Robertson of Victoria, Australia became the third O'Neill Highland Open by Swatch Champion. Robertson had to surf through 5 heats and eventually went head to head against Adam Melling of Gold Coast, Australia. He was awarded the Highlander Sword and 3,000 points ...
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