Maybe Tahiti is a cheat code, but photographer Jerome Brouillet is having a double-gold Olympics.
Brouillet's name leapt into this space earlier in the Games when he caught surfer Gabriel Medina 'in flight' during his record-breaking 9.90 ride on the waves of Teahupo'o.
Now, while observing a couple of other Olympic surfers, he's caught another a very different mammal in flight.
It's a whale. A humpback whale for you non-cetologists out there.
Brazil's Tatiana Weston-Webb and Costa Rica's Brisa Hennessy were minding their business — literally — in the women's surfing semifinals, unaware that their scene was being stolen off in the distance.
Weston-Webb won silver, while Hennessy finished fourth. But it seems to us that perhaps they should've found our whale friend for his take.
Check out the pic below.
Whale leaps into photo during surfing semifinal at 2024 Paris Olympics