{"id":31195,"date":"2025-01-22T01:59:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T01:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/stephanie-gilmore-extends-break-from-world-surf-league-to-focus-on-healing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T01:59:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T01:59:53","slug":"stephanie-gilmore-extends-break-from-world-surf-league-to-focus-on-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/stephanie-gilmore-extends-break-from-world-surf-league-to-focus-on-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Gilmore extends break from World Surf League to \u2018focus on healing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Eight-time world surfing champion to sit out second season<\/li>\n<li>Reigning WSL men\u2019s champ John John Florence also steps away<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eight-time world champion Stephanie Gilmore has abandoned plans to return to full-time competition on the surfing world tour to focus on fully recover from injuries. The Australian surfing great will extend her break from the World Surf League\u2019s Championship Tour into a second season, while reigning men\u2019s champion John John Florence has also stepped away from competing in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Gilmore was expected to return to professional surfing at the Pipeline Pro in Hawaii next week after being awarded a season wildcard but will now sit out this year\u2019s campaign. The WSL has granted Gilmore another wildcard for the 2026 CT season which would allow her to chase a record-extending ninth women\u2019s world crown.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jan\/22\/stephanie-gilmore-surfer-season-off-wsl-world-surf-league-surfing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight-time world surfing champion to sit out second season Reigning WSL men\u2019s champ John John Florence also steps away Eight-time world champion Stephanie Gilmore has abandoned plans to return to full-time competition on the surfing world tour to focus on fully recover from injuries. The Australian surfing great will extend her break from the World &#8230; <a title=\"Stephanie Gilmore extends break from World Surf League to \u2018focus on healing\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/stephanie-gilmore-extends-break-from-world-surf-league-to-focus-on-healing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Stephanie Gilmore extends break from World Surf League to \u2018focus on healing\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}