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Three-time surfing world champ Medina undergoes surgery

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Three-time world champion and Olympic bronze medallist Gabriel Medina will miss the start of the World Surfing League after suffering a chest muscle injury.
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The WSL season 2025 is practically lost for the Brazilian athlete

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Gabriel Medina from São Paulo is out of the 2025 World Surf League (WSL) season. According to Team Brazil's Instagram profile, the Olympic bronze medalist and three-time circuit champion underwent surgery this Saturday (11) to reconstruct the pectoralis major muscle tendon of his left shoulder, injured during training on Maresias Beach, in São Sebastião (SP), last Friday (10). According to the publication, Medina is expected to return to the com…

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The tri-champion of the world Gabriel Medina injured the pectoral muscle last Thursday and was operated today and thus will be lost between six to eight months of the 2025 season, reported AOS Mídia, Globo and the WSL Brazil. This leaves with great chances to enter the Mexican Alan Cleland to CT and become the first of his country in history to be part of the elite of the world surfing. It is not clear the criterion that will be used to determin…

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UOL broke the news in Brazil on Saturday, January 11, 2025.
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