The 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony, essentially the most prestigious honours in sport, shall be held within the French capital right here on May 8.
The occasion will mark a return to a bodily awards format, following two years of digital shows on account of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, learn an announcement from the organisers. The visitor record for this yr’s occasion shall be introduced in the end and can embody lots of the sensational sporting figures nominated by the world’s sporting media for the Laureus Award classes.
Providing native curiosity shall be Paris-based world soccer star and winner of the 2022 FIFA World Cup with Argentina, Lionel Messi, who’s nominated for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award alongside his Paris Saint-Germain teammate Kylian Mbappé.
Competing for that very same statuette shall be Rafael Nadal, who picked up an unprecedented 14th French Open title in Paris final May which took him to prime of the all-time record of males’s Grand Slam champions with 22 titles.
Iga Świątek additionally triumphed at Roland Garros in 2022 and adopted it up with a win on the US Open to earn a nomination within the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year class.
The France males’s rugby staff have been nominated within the Laureus Team of the Year class – alongside Messi’s Argentina – for his or her heroics in successful the six-nations and finishing the Grand Slam in 2022.
The 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards will be part of this yr’s Rugby World Cup and the 2024 summer time Olympic and Paralympic Games within the French capital. Sebastian Coe, Laureus World Sports Academy member and former chairman of the Organising Committee for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, mentioned, “I saw in 2012 the incredible impact the Olympic Games has on its host city. It’s about far more than elite competition, the change can be societal and it lasts long after the medals are handed out.
“In London, that cycle began in earnest with the Laureus World Sports Awards, the greatest celebration of sport we have. With the Rugby World Cup and then the Olympics, Paris is about to become the centre of the sporting world.
“There’s no better way to begin than with the Laureus Awards. As a member of the Laureus World Sports Academy, I’m looking forward to celebrating the best of sport in Paris on May 8.”
The awards present will honour essentially the most memorable sporting performances of 2022 and can embody the Laureus Sport for Good Award, which recognises a person or organisation who has made a major contribution to remodeling the lives of youngsters and younger individuals by sport.
Laureus will return to the bodily occasion format after ‘virtual’ shows in 2021 and 2022 because of the world journey restrictions attributable to the pandemic.
The in-person awards will have fun final yr’s achievements in a ceremony which is able to mirror the status and elegance for which Laureus – and Paris – are recognised.
Among the numerous athletes and groups who had been nominated for Laureus Awards are Steph Curry, Mondo Duplantis, Max Verstappen (Sportsman), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Katie Ledecky, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (Sportswoman), the England ladies’s soccer staff, Real Madrid, Golden State Warriors (staff), Carlos Alcaraz, Scottie Scheffler, Elena Rybakina (breakthrough) and Christian Eriksen, Tiger Woods and Annemiek van Vleuten (comeback).
The winners of Laureus World Sports Awards are chosen by the final word sports activities jury – the 71 members of the Laureus World Sports Academy, the dwelling legends of sport honouring the best athletes of immediately.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com