U.S. surfer Florence out as Tahiti's 'Wall of Skulls' rules Olympics

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TEAHUPO'O, Tahiti -- Brazil's Gabriel Medina powered through a giant blue barrel for the highest score of the Olympic surfing competition so far, but Tahiti's Teahupo'o stole the show on Monday with some of the most incredible waves on Earth.

The decision to hold the surfing competition at the perfect reef pass of Teahupo'o proved inspired as the swell rose and a forecasted