Surfing legend Mick Fanning announces retirement


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A good white shark couldn’t locate Mick Fanning though Father Time has.


The three-time universe champion has announced subsequent month’s Rip Curl Pro during Bells Beach will be his final eventuality on a World Surf League tour, 19 years after a blond child from Coolangatta done his debut.


Bells Beach is a special place for Fanning, whose win off a Victorian seashore in 2001 led to him fasten a universe circuit a subsequent year.


Only 1980s star Mark Richards has been crowned world’s best masculine surfer some-more mostly than Fanning, whose career enclosed titles in 2007, 2009 and 2013 titles and 6 top-three finishes.


But he has unsuccessful to find a expostulate to win another climax given fast a scattered 2015.


Mick Fanning takes a throng bath during a Quicksilver Pro France roller foe on Oct 12, 2017.

After a year began with a relapse of his matrimony to Karissa Dalton, Fanning came face-to-face with a good white shark during a televised J-Bay Open final in South Africa.


Knocked off his board, a Australian surfer punched a quadruped before it bit by Fanning’s leash.


He returned home to take batch before being speedy to react a hunt for a fourth universe crown.


But it couldn’t be that easy.


Hours before entering a H2O for a third turn of a season-ending Pipeline Masters, he schooled of a genocide of his comparison hermit Peter.


Riding waves of seawater and emotion, he bent out in a semi-finals.


“For me he’s a strongest male I’ve ever met in my whole life,” contingent champion Adriano De Souza pronounced during a time.


Fanning competed in only 5 events in 2016 and his 2017 deteriorate was a initial in some-more than a decade that a Queenslander unsuccessful to make a final.


Mick Fanning walks out to his initial feverishness during a Rip Curl Pro event.

Article source: http://watoday.com.au/sport/tennis/australian-open-2016-novak-djokovic-hits-andy-murray-for-six-20160131-gmi8ww.html

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