{"id":59635,"date":"2021-04-18T08:39:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T08:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=59635"},"modified":"2021-04-18T10:56:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T10:56:58","slug":"fanning-return-halted-after-shark-sighted-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=59635","title":{"rendered":"Fanning return halted after shark sighted in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shark sighting temporarily halted competition in the World Surf League event at Sydney&#x27;s Narrabean Beach on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The second heat of the event was in progress when the shark was sighted and surfers were called from the water.<\/p>\n<p>Competition was delayed for 15 minutes, until organisers were sure the shark had left the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wsl\/status\/1383648484671197188\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/wsl\/status\/1383648484671197188<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three-time world champion, Australian Mick Fanning, was onshore Sunday when the sighting happened.<\/p>\n<p>Fanning had a well-publicised encounter with a great white shark during a surfing competition near Port Elizabeth, South Africa in July 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In that incident at the J-Bay Open at Jeffreys Bay, the shark swam close to Fanning who punched it and used his board to shield his body until a fellow competitor and response team helped him to shore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A shark sighting temporarily halted competition in the World Surf League event at Sydney&#x27;s Narrabean Beach on Sunday. The second heat of the event was <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=59635\" title=\"Fanning return halted after shark sighted in Sydney\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59636,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59635\/revisions\/59636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}