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In this episode, Hannah and Nick go super-nerd on the WSL CT’s big-hitting Teahupo’o event. This is the last straight up CT of 2025, and nothing is quite as it seems! While the top women seem to have sorted out who’s who, they face an extremely dangerous wildcard in Vahine Fierro. And on the other side of the gender gap, things are all over the shop. At least eight surfers are in the hunt for the final five, none of them have really owned the year, and THEY face not just one wildcard in Olympic champion Kauli Vaast, but the terrifying spectre of likely injury wildcard Gabriel Medina. It’s a car crash waiting to happen. We also reflect on a couple of other grand finales: Jack McCoy and Clyde Aikau, and the meaning of the paddle-out.
By Hannah Anderson and Nick Carroll5
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In this episode, Hannah and Nick go super-nerd on the WSL CT’s big-hitting Teahupo’o event. This is the last straight up CT of 2025, and nothing is quite as it seems! While the top women seem to have sorted out who’s who, they face an extremely dangerous wildcard in Vahine Fierro. And on the other side of the gender gap, things are all over the shop. At least eight surfers are in the hunt for the final five, none of them have really owned the year, and THEY face not just one wildcard in Olympic champion Kauli Vaast, but the terrifying spectre of likely injury wildcard Gabriel Medina. It’s a car crash waiting to happen. We also reflect on a couple of other grand finales: Jack McCoy and Clyde Aikau, and the meaning of the paddle-out.

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