TEAHUPO’O, Tahiti—With all eyes on the ocean during the final day of the Paris Olympics surfing competition in Tahiti on Monday afternoon, a surprise guest made an appearance: a whale.
A safe distance from athletes Tatiana Weston-Webb from Brazil and Brisa Hennessy of Costa Rica—who were competing in a semifinal match—the whale breached and gave spectators and photographers the Olympic moment of a lifetime.