Nice New Year gift for Sophie Pujol. For the new year, chance will give him the opportunity to benefit from a plane ticket to Papeete, in Tahiti, 12,000 km and 20 hours by plane, in the archipelago dear to the 2024 Olympic champion, Kauli Vaast, or even the family of Vetea David, who marked the first professional surfing competitions. Without forgetting their compatriots Michel Bourez and Arsène Harehoe, the advocate of the Teahupoo wave, who left their mark on the neighboring Anglet Surf Avenue on the Chambre d’Amour esplanade.
She won this ticket thanks to Baptiste and Viana, themselves from Papeete, who run the restaurant Manava (Welcome in Tahitian) at the Chambre d’Amour.
“We decided, on March 1st, to give away a plane ticket to Tahiti, which is one of the essential bastions of surfing,” explains Baptiste, and we extended the game until October 31st. »
“To our greatest pleasure, more than 5,900 restaurant customers filled it,” adds Viana. We entrusted to the bailiff of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Me Moreau, the care of organizing a draw.
L’onde by Michel Hoff
The lucky winner, from Toulouse, Sophie Pujol, is the beneficiary. Monday, with her friend Flory, they came to collect the lot and shared a glass of champagne and wore the tiare, a flowered hairstyle, emblem of French Polynesia.
During the Bayonne Festival, Sophie invited Flory, her friend from Place des Cinq cantons, to thank her for her hospitality. The two young women filled out the participation form. “It’s strange, but as someone who doesn’t win anything at games of chance, I felt like an intuition,” said the young woman from Toulouse.
A wave undoubtedly came from Michel Hoff, the first importer and producer of bodyboards in France, installed in the Pontots area, in 1985. He had organized the first boarding competition, which had the reward of a ticket to Tahiti. History repeats itself.
