{"id":3708,"date":"2010-03-09T19:07:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2010-05-07T11:51:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T15:51:30","slug":"statement-johnny-weir-on-withdrawing-from-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/2010\/03\/09\/statement-johnny-weir-on-withdrawing-from-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: Johnny Weir on withdrawing from Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A statement from Johnny Weir on his withdraw from the 2010 World Championships:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I want to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and support during the recent Olympic Games. The 2010 Olympics will be a memory that I will cherish for the rest of my life.\u00a0 I feel that I skated two of the best performances of my career, making my coaches, my family and above all- myself very proud. But I would not have been able to skate the way I did without the encouragement of my fans worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>And while I am still embracing my Olympic memories and have the momentum to move forward, I have decided that it is not advantageous at this time for me to partake in the World Championships in Torino, Italy.\u00a0 After my sixth place finish in Vancouver, I believe that I must take time to reassess my strategies and goals.\u00a0 While I understand the importance of competition, I feel that a short break at this time would be personally beneficial to me. I know all may not share my stance, but I can assure everyone that I will be re-energized after I\u2019ve had time to rework my technique.\u00a0I want to be a better competitor and win medals for my country and I hope everyone can respect my decision to take this time off.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I want to thank everyone who supported me this season.\u00a0 Specifically, I would like to thank my coaches Galina Zmievskaya, Viktor Petrenko, Nina Petrenko, Priscilla Hill and David Wilson for helping me make my Olympic dreams a reality.\u00a0 I would also like to thank my family and friends for their never- ending support.\u00a0Finally, I want my fans to know that I love them and I work every day to make them proud. I will continue to work hard and I hope my work for next season will be the most exciting of my career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Weir issued a statement about his withdraw from the 2010 World Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worlds","tag-johnny-weir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}