Beijing time on April 25: The 2021 Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony ended this morning Beijing time. The attribution of the major awards was also revealed, and F1 driver Verstappen won the award in the most closely watched best male athlete, which won the award by tennis player Djokovic Djokovic. The result of this award has caused a lot of controversy, and the result of not awarding the best male athlete to Djokovic, who has always favored tennis, was not awarded to Djokovic, who won three Grand Slam titles and one Grand Slam runner-up last year. However, tennis is not a grain of the grain, last year's US Open women's singles champion British Chinese player Radukanu won the best newcomer award. Today we will talk about the selection of this year's Lawrence Awards.
Laureus World Sports Awards, or Laureus Awards for short. Founded in 2000 by Dailmer AG and Richemont, it is supported by global partners Mercedes-Benz and IWC. It is one of the most influential awards in the world of sports and a global sports award ceremony. Several of the more important awards were awarded to F1 drivers for best male athletes, Verstappen last year's year-end overall champion, Jamaican athlete Thompson, who won olympic gold medals in the women's 100 meters, 200 meters and 4 by 100 meters, the best team was awarded to European Champion Italy, and the best breakthrough award was awarded to last year's US women's singles champion Chinese British player Raducannu.
After this year's awards were awarded, there was a huge controversy over the awards for the best male athlete, and from the nominations, it was unanimous that Serbian tennis player Djokovic Djokovic, who reached the final of all four Grand Slams last year and won three championships, was the favorite to win the award. Because the Lawrence Award has always been very favored for tennis, it has also been awarded double eggs in some awards before. However, Djokovic began with a series of farces at the Australian Open at the beginning of this year because he was refused to participate in the competition without vaccination, which became the direct inducement for his failure to win. Although some people say that he has lost his nationality, in fact, the deeper reason is still attributed to his confused performance in the middle of the epidemic.
Winning the award for Best Male Athlete this year was F1 driver Verstappen, who won the annual championship for the first time in a final-minute final-minute final-term race last year, Hamilton, who ended his opponent's dream of eight titles. However, that one title is also very controversial, and the FIA's insistence on resuming the competition is suspected of violating the law, but it is also this decision that has created a new champion. Speaking at the awards ceremony, Verstappen said: "Thank you so much to all the members of the Lawrence Sports Institute who voted for me, it has been a very special year for me, and certainly a very busy year, because the pressure is always there, but that's what we love. ”
There is little controversy about this year's Best Female Athlete award, which she presented to Jamaican athlete Thompson, who won three gold medals in the women's 100m, 200m and 4-by-100m relays at the Tokyo Olympics last year. Thompson won not only because she won three gold medals at the Olympic Games, but because she ran second in history in both the 100 meters and 200 meters, only a small gap from the world record that Griffith Joyna held for more than 33 years, and finally gave people the hope of a chance to rewrite history. After learning of the award, she said: "Looking back at my results on the track last year, you know that I am the second female athlete to achieve this at the Olympics. Being the second fastest female athlete is really a great honor and I'm honored to take this trophy. ”
Although Djokovic missed the Best Male Athlete award, the Breakthrough of the Year Award was awarded to Raducannu, a Chinese-American tennis player from the United Kingdom. Raducannu won ten consecutive matches from qualifying at last year's US Open, making history the first player in tennis history to start and win a title in qualifying and the first Grand Slam singles champion in Britain in decades. Raducannu was very happy to learn of the award, saying " Thank you very much to the members of the Lawrence Institute of Sport for voting for me. Receiving this award means a lot to me, and I sincerely congratulate the other nominees. This year has been a great year for me, but I have to keep working hard. Thank you so much. It is worth mentioning that at the award ceremony, she also received the blessing of her idol Chinese tennis player Li Na.
Every year, the Laureus Awards will cause some controversy and waves, but most of the awards are well deserved, and we will continue to pay attention to the progress of the sports field to bring you relevant reports.