Chapter 836 The Unpopular Older Son

On the evening of August 2, local time in Barcelona, ​​Barcelona's San Jodie Stadium was brightly lit and full of guests. The 8th Lawrence Awards Gala, known as the "Sports Oscar", is being held here. The world's best athletes gather to compete for the highest honor in the international sports world.

It can be said that every athlete who appears here is not an unknown person in the world sports world. Especially the world-renowned male and female athlete of the year, every candidate is a superstar with great reputation in the world sports world.

Six candidates for the best male athlete of the year, including the Golf Championship Open and the PGA large golf event champion, the world number one player in golf, Tiger Woods, the car king Schumacher, who won the seven-time Formula One Championship championship, was the best athlete in the IAAF in 2006, Powell, the men's 100-meter world record holder, the three major tennis Grand Slam winner Federer, the defending champion of the Formula One Championship who beats Schumacher for two consecutive years, and the football superstar Yin Jun, who led Manchester United to create the miracle of the seven-champion championship and led the Chinese team to the semi-finals of the World Cup.

The six candidates for the best female athlete of the year are also star-studded. They are French Open champion, women's top player Haining, Wimbledon champion Maurismo, US Open champion, Super Beautiful Girl Sharapova, four gold medal winners of the European Swimming Championships, Carolina Cruffert, and "female Tsar" Isinbaeva who broke the world record of women's pole vaults 19 times!

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For the Lawrence World Sports Awards, Yin Jun is already an old face.

With his outstanding individual performances in 2003, 2004 and 2005, Yin Jun has appeared on the Lawrence World Sports Awards' Nominee for the Year three times, and this year is his fourth consecutive year in this candidate.

But what is embarrassing is that he has been a runner in the past three years.

At the 5th Lawrence World Sports Awards in 2004, Yin Jun, who was still a "newcomer" in the world sports world, was selected for the first time in the 2003 Lawrence World Sports Awards Best Male Athlete. However, in the final competition, he lost to the then-high car king Schumacher and failed for the first time.

A year later, Yin Junhe led Manchester United to defend the Champions League championship, led the Chinese team to win the Asian Cup, and scored 68 goals in his natural year and created 109 goals. He was once again selected as the shortlist for the Lawrence 2004 Lawrence World Sports Awards for Best Male Athlete.

However, he still failed to win the award. This time he lost to Schumacher. Although the car king still dominated F1 in 2004, he and Yin Jun both lost to the Australian Open in 2004, Wimbledon and US Open three Grand Slams. The Swiss tennis king Federer, who won 11 men's singles titles in one year, lost in the competition for the best male athlete of the year for the second consecutive year.

In 2005, although Yin Jun's personal performance was excellent, scoring a record 69 goals, it was regarded as a sluggish year in Yin Jun's career because Manchester United failed to win any heavyweight championship honors.

Under such circumstances, although he was once again selected as the shortlist for the 7th Lawrence World Sports Awards for the Year in early 2006, he lost the competition for three consecutive years. Federer was still defeated. The Swiss King won 11 men's singles championships again in 2005, including two Grand Slam titles.

Yin Jun still doesn't have much confidence in this year's best athlete of the year.

Although he was impeccable in terms of personal performance and team honors last year, his competitors were too strong.

In the 2006 season, Federer achieved a total record of 92 wins and 5 losses, of which he reached the finals 16 times in the 17 events he participated, winning 12 championships, including 3 Grand Slams (Australia Open, Wimbledon, US Open), Tennis Masters Cup, 4 ATP Masters (Indian Wells, Miami, Rogers Cup, Madrid), 1 ATP500 (Tokyo) and 3 ATP250 (Doha, Halle, Basel).

Such performance is even more perverted than in the previous two years, and can be called "a victory in every battle"!

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Yin Jun did not have much confidence in winning the final award. In addition to his strong opponent, he was also because of his embarrassing position in the Lawrence World Sports Awards.

The Lawrence World Sports Awards were jointly founded by Daimler and Richemont Group in 2000. Because of its authority, fairness and public welfare, it has been widely supported by the global sports community and generally recognized by people in the global sports industry. It is also worth mentioning that the selection model of the Lawrence World Sports Awards is first voted by global sports journalists, and then the final winners are determined by 52 expert members of the "Lawrence Sports Academy". Because the model is very similar to the Oscar Film Awards, it has been called the "Sports Oscar".

Although football is the world's number one sport, it is not highly valued in the selection of the highest award in the world sports world.

Of course, this does not mean that football rarely wins awards in this award selection. On the contrary, football is the sport with the most awards in the first seven sessions. Among them, Manchester United won the first sports team of the year in 2000, and then they won the awards of the best sports team of the year twice in the fifth session in 2004 and the sixth session in 2005. Manchester United, who won the best team of the year three times, is also the biggest winner of the Lawrence World Sports Awards.

In the selection of the best sports team of the year, it has been won by the football team in the past seven sessions. In addition to Manchester United, the French national team and the Brazilian national team also won awards in 2001 and 2003 respectively, which can be said to have dominated this award.

In personal awards, there are also many football players who have won the award.

However, in the selection of the Lawrence World Sports Awards' most popular male athlete of the year, no football player has ever been able to stand out.

Although football is the "first son" of sports, it is just like the saying "the emperor loves the eldest son, and the people love the youngest son". In the most important award of Best Male Athlete of the Year, the Lawrence World Sports Awards do not like football at all. After all, they are in love with tennis. Aristocratic sports like F1 and golf are the "popular youngest son" in the eyes of the Lawrence Award judges!

In the past seven Lawrence World Sports Awards Best Male Athlete of the Year, these three sports were divided twice, and the remaining one was won by bicycle Armstrong.

Under such circumstances, Yin Jun naturally had doubts about whether he could win the award this year.
Chapter completed!