miercuri, 20 aprilie 2016

Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams, best athletes of the year at the Laureus Awards

Tennis was the big star of the Laureus gala, with Djokovic and Serena as high achievers. Jan Frodeno, the New Zealand football team or were other galadornados Jordan Spieth. Very special was the tribute to Johan Cruyff, who was also awarded a special prize posthumously.

Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams were honored Monday with the Laureus Awards that distinguish the best athletes of the year at a gala held in Berlin and honored the memory of Dutch soccer star Johan Cruyff, who died the month past.

Tennis was the winner in a ceremony held at the 'Palais am Funkturm Messe' Berlin and awarded as the most outstanding athletes to the two 'first rackets' world.



Djokovic, 28, picked up personally in the German capital an award he also won, but could not get last year in Shanghai ( China ). He received from the Scottish expiloto David Coulthard Formula One, wearing a 'kilt' and, before switching to English, gave his thanks in German . Wink to local audiences. And above all, his coach, Boris Becker.

Winning eleven Grand Slam titles, 'Nole' added another Laureus to which he was also awarded in 2012, after passing the vote to the Argentine Lionel Messi ( FC Barcelona ), five times winner of the Golden Ball; Jamaican Usain Bolt , the best sprinter of all time; and American basketball player Stephen Curry, leader of the Golden State Warriors, recent winners of the NBA.

The Serb also improved in votes to the English Lewis Hamilton, who delivered one of the special awards, the 'Achievement Lifetime Achievement Sport' one of his bosses at Mercedes, the Austrian Niki Lauda , also triple world champion and living legend F1.

And the American golfer Jordan Spieth winner of the Masters and the Open USA-, 'Newcomer of the Year' at the expense of the Chilean national team winning the Copa America soccer.




The younger of the Williams, 34, four times Olympic champion -a single and three doubles with her ​​sister Venus has won 21 Grand Slam titles. It is therefore not surprising that being awarded the Laureus World Sportsman for the third time after 2003 and 2010. In 2007 he was given the 'Best Return'.

Serena was chosen ahead of the Ethiopian athlete Genzebe Dibaba, who won last year, and the Austrian skier Anna Fenninger. He also beat the Jamaican athlete Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and two other Americans, swimmer Katie Ledecky footballer and Carli Lloyd .

In its name he received the award the legendary Nadia Comaneci, the 'gymnast 10' Queen of the Games of Montreal ( Canada ), where he received the first perfect score forty years ago.





The gala 'Oscar' sports was presented by actor Bill Murray , nominated for the Oscar for "Lost in Translation" in 2003; and world famous also for "Groundhog Day" ( "Groundhog Day") or "Ghostbusters" ( "Ghostbusters").

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