Talk:Laureus World Sports Awards

I think that excluding the winners from the main article is silly, and I'm moving them in. Wincoote 19:50, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

dean potter
is "2003: Dean Potter (United States) - speed climbing" correct? shouldnt it be freeclimbing? --84.75.28.60 20:21, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

General updates
Added a fair amount of content and corrected a few bits - been working on the official website for the last couple of months, should my credentials need confirmation! --Rillaith 10:34, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Inconsistent sport names
Yelena Isinbayeva, who does pole vault, is listed as track and field, while Sergey Bubka is listed as pole vault. They should both be list under the same sport name for consistency. I'm changing Bubka to track and field since there are other athletes under track and field. --Scuac (talk) 00:45, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Daimler
The article states that the awards were founded by Daimler, among others, in 1999. This links to a disambiguation page. I considered correcting this to Daimler AG, but then I saw that this was the name used after the demerger in 2007. So should the founding patron be DaimlerChrysler AG, which was the company formed by the merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler in 1998? Coyets (talk) 10:35, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Years
Athletes receive awards for achievements in the previous year. For example, Usain Bolt won the 2009 award Sportsman of the Year for success in 2008. We're supposed to write that Bolt was Sportsman of the Year for 2008 and 2009. And all the other years, we should reduce by one. --Aca Srbin (talk) 18:59, 9 January 2011 (CET)


 * OK i get it, so Novak Djokovic will be prized in year 2012 for this year achievements. --94.140.88.117 (talk) 19:41, 16 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Whilst I agree that your statement is factually correct (the 2011 Sportsman of the Year is awarded in 2011 based on performance in 2010), in all news articles, press releases, and anything else written/spoken (whether by Laureus or 3rd parties such as newspapers), it's always "The 2011 Sportsman of the Year is ..." or "The Sportsman of the Year 2011 is..." - i.e. the award name contains the award year, and the person is the current awardee during the awarding year. Therefore I would oppose the suggestion that all years are reduced by one in the article. (Disclosure: I used to work for the web agency who managed their web presence and have attended the Awards every year from 2007-2011 in a support role. I no longer have any involvement with Laureus, jsut an insider's knowledge.) Rillaith (talk) 17:37, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

World Sports Awards of the Century
Where is an article about the "World Sports Awards of the Century" from 1999 in Vienna, Austria? With Pele, Muhammad Ali, etc etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.116.242.76 (talk) 17:04, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Rescinded awards
We need some uniformity in how the four rescinded awards are shown. These are Armstrong (Sportsman 2003) and (Comeback 2000), Connor (Disabled 2004) and Jones (Sportswoman 2000) "Rescinded" is the term that is used and if you click on the winner on the Laureus page you get "Award rescinded after the sporting successes on which the Laureus World Sports Academy voted have been revoked by the relevant sport governing body."

How about a standard of striking through the winner's name and the one foot note for all cases with Laureus's preferred phrasing. We can choose whether "Rescinded" appears next to the name too.--Peter cohen (talk) 01:40, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Astericks
What do the astericks in academy members mean?Perfectamundo (talk) 15:54, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

World Sports Awards of the Century 1999 in Vienna
The World Sports Awards of the Century in Vienna were the award first was presented, afterwards the Laureus World Sports Awards came. So why there is no mention about it? Muhammed Ali, Pele, Mark Spitz, Michael Jordan just all the best sport guys of the century were in Vienna to receive this award. The nomination list is the who the who of sports. this should get an article here.

Here is the list with all the nominations and the winner are bold. Almost everyone came to Vienna for the show. here is a clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue63v53dMiE

World Sports Awards of the Century Results by the Nomination Jury Water sports/Men			Water sports/Women Matt BIONDI	USA		Franziska van ALMSICK	Germany Paul ELVSTRÖM	Denmark		Kristina EGERSZEGI	Hungary Gert FREDRIKSSON Sweden		Janet EVANS	USA Pertti KARPPINEN Finland	Dawn FRASER	Australia Greg LOUGANIS	USA		Birgit SCHMIDT-FISCHER	Germany Steven REDGRAVE	Great Britain Don SCHOLLANDER	USA Mark SPITZ	USA Winter sports/Men			Winter sports/Women Björn DAEHLI	Norway		Bonnie BLAIR	USA Wayne GRETZKY	Canada		Deborah COMPAGNONI	Italy Eric HEIDEN	USA		Larissa LAZUTINA	Russia Jean-Claude KILLY France	Annemarie MOSER-PRÖLL	Austria Matti NYKÄNEN	Finland		Gunda NIEMANN	Germany Toni SAILER	Austria		Irina RODNINA	Russia Ingemar STENMARK Sweden		Vreni SCHNEIDER	Switzerland Alberto TOMBA	Italy		Katharina WITT	Germany Athletics/Men			Athletics/Women Roger BANNISTER	Great Britain		Evelyn ASHFORD	USA Bob BEAMON	USA		Fanny BLANKERS	Netherlands Sergej BUBKA	Ukraine		Vera CASLAVSKA	Czech Rep. Dick FOSBURY	USA		Nadia COMANECI	Romania Haile GEBRSELASSIE Ethiopia	Betty CUTHBERT	Australia Miguel INDURAIN	Spain		Jackie JOYNER-KERSEE	USA Carl LEWIS	USA		Larissa LATYNINA	Russia Eddy MERCKX	Belgium		Jeannie LONGO	France Al OERTER	USA Emil ZATOPEK	Czech Rep.		Ball sports/Women Chris EVERT	USA Ball sports/Men			Steffi GRAF	Germany Serge BLANCO	France		Billie Jean KING	USA Björn BORG	Sweden		Heather McKAY	Australia Sir Donald BRADMAN Australia	Martina NAVRATILOVA	USA Wilt CHAMBERLAIN USA		Margaret SMITH-COURT	Australia Michael JORDAN	USA Rodney LAVER	Australia		Soccer John McENROE	USA		Franz BECKENBAUER 	Germany Joe MONTANA	USA		George BEST	Northern Ireland Jack NICKLAUS	USA		Bobby CHARLTON	Great Britain Sadaharu OH 	Japan		Johan CRUYFF	Netherlands Diego MARADONA	Argentinia Stanley MATTHEWS Great Britain Motor sports			Michel PLATINI	France Giacomo AGOSTINI Italy	       Ferenc PUSKAS	Hungary Michael DOOHAN	Australia	PELÈ	Brazil A.J. FOYT	USA		Alfredo di STEFANO Spain Niki LAUDA 	Austria		Dino ZOFF	Italy Michelle MOUTON	France Alain PROST	France Michael SCHUMACHER Germany Jackie STEWART	Scotland Martial arts Muhammad ALI	       USA Antonius GEESINK	Netherlands Sugar Ray LEONARD	USA Lazlo PAPP	       Hungary Max SCHMELING	       Germany Teofilo STEVENSON	Cuba Yasuhiro YAMASHITA	Japan Kohki TAIHO	       Japan  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.235.36.62 (talk) 09:21, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Origins
Good source. The Rambling Man (talk) 14:11, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

And this. The Rambling Man (talk) 14:14, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Pre FT quick questions
Hi ,
 * "...honouring individuals..." - and teams? or are teams covered by "sporting achievements"
 * "...held in ten cities around the world..." - eleven? unless counting Estoril as only a town or is considered part of Lisbon? (ten cities also appears under Ceremony.)
 * "...a gold Cartier Laureus statuette..." - remove "gold" per the following sentence? JennyOz (talk) 08:27, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * , made these changes, thanks! The Rambling Man (talk) 11:11, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. All good. JennyOz (talk) 11:39, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Who won the 2018 Award for Best Sporting Moment?
According to the section Best Sporting Moment, the 2018 award was won by the Iowa Hawkeyes football team. However, the table in the section Winners by year says that the winner is Associacao Chapecoense de Futebol. They contradict each other. Who won the award? ~ Caleb KG (talk) 13:06, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Olive tree and not Laurel is symbol of Victory through the times
fact that Laurel is traditional symbol of Victory in Greece- that was and still is : olive tree 2A02:587:4B1C:4596:9C5E:6D7A:5332:4F43 (talk) 13:05, 29 June 2024 (UTC)