host must win

Chapter 836 The Unpopular Eldest Son
On the evening of August 8, local time in Barcelona, ​​the San Jordi Stadium in Barcelona was brightly lit and full of guests.The 2th Lawrence Awards Gala, known as the "Sports Oscars", is being held here.The world's best athletes gather to compete for the highest honor in international sports.

It can be said that every athlete who appears here is not unknown in the world sports circle.Especially the world-renowned male and female athletes of the year, each candidate is a famous superstar in the world sports circle.

Six nominees for the best male athlete of the year, including Golf Champions Open and PGA Major Golf Tournament champion, golf No. 1 Tiger Woods, seven-time World Formula One Championship champion The retired car king Schumacher, the best athlete of the IAAF in 2006, the men's [-]-meter world record holder Powell, the winner of the three major tennis Grand Slam tournaments Swiss tennis king Federer, beat the world of car king Schumacher for two consecutive years Alonso, the defending champion of the Formula One championship, and Yin Jun, the football superstar who led Manchester United to create a miracle of seven championships and led the Chinese team to the World Cup semi-finals.

And the six candidates for the best female athlete of the year are also star-studded.They are French Open champion, women's No.1 Haining, Wimbledon champion Mauresmo, US Open champion, super girl Sharapova, European Swimming Championship four gold medalist Manado, European Heptathlon champion Gold medalist Karolina Cruft, and the "female czar" Isinbayeva who broke the women's pole vault world record 19 times!

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

Relying on his outstanding personal performance in 2003, 2004 and 2005, Yin Jun has appeared in the list of the best male athletes of the year for the Lawrence World Sports Awards three times before.

But embarrassingly, he was a runner for the previous three years.

In the fifth Lawrence World Sports Awards in 2004, Yin Jun, who was still a "newcomer" in the world sports at that time, was selected for the first time in the 2003 Lawrence World Sports Awards Best Male Athlete Candidate List.But in the final competition, he was defeated by Schumacher, the car king who was in full swing at that time, and was defeated for the first time.

A year later, Yin Jun led Manchester United to defend the Champions League, led the Chinese team to win the Asian Cup, and scored 68 goals in his natural year, making 109 goals. He was once again selected as the best male athlete of the Lawrence World Sports Award in 2004 shortlist.

However, he still failed to win the final award. This time he did not lose to Schumacher. Although the car king still ruled F2004 in 1, both he and Yin Jun lost to Schumacher who won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open in 2004. Three Grand Slams and 11 men's singles championship titles in one year, the Swiss tennis king Federer lost in the male player of the year competition for the second consecutive year.

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

Under such a premise, although he was re-elected in the 2006th Lawrence World Sports Awards shortlist for the best male athlete of the year in early 7, he lost the competition for three consecutive years.It was still Federer who defeated him. The Swiss king won 2005 men's singles titles again in 11, including two Grand Slam titles.

For this year's best player of the year, Yin Jun still does not have much confidence.

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

2006赛季，费德勒取得92胜5负的总战绩，其中在所参加的17项赛事中16次杀入决赛，共夺得12个冠军，包括3个大满贯（澳网、温网、美网）、网球大师杯、4个ATP大师赛（印第安维尔斯、迈阿密、罗杰斯杯、马德里）、1个ATP500赛（东京）和3个ATP250赛（多哈、哈雷、巴塞尔）。

This kind of performance is even more perverted than the previous two years, and it can be called "victorious in all battles"!
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Yin Jun does not have much confidence in winning the final award, not only because of the strong opponent, but also because of the embarrassing position of football in the selection of the Lawrence World Sports Awards.

The Lawrence World Sports Award was jointly founded by Daimler and Richemont in 2000. Because of its authority, fairness and public welfare, it has been widely supported by the global sports community and generally recognized by the global sports community.It is also worth mentioning that the selection mode of the Lawrence World Sports Awards is firstly 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 is also called the "Sports Oscar".

Although football is the most expensive sport in the world, it is not taken seriously in the selection of the highest award in the world sports world, the Lawrence World Sports Awards.

Of course, this is not to say that football rarely wins awards in this award. On the contrary, football is the sport with the most awards in the previous 7 sessions. Among them, Manchester United won the first sports team of the year in 2000. Then they won the honor of the best sports team of the year twice in the fifth session in 2004 and the sixth session in 2005.Manchester United, which has won Team of the Year three times, is also the biggest winner of the Lawrence World Sports Award.

In the selection of the best sports team of the year, in the past 7 sessions, 5 of them were won by football teams.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 dominate this award.

Among the individual awards, there are also many football players who have won awards.

However, no footballer has ever stood out in the Laureus World Sports Awards' most-watched Men's Athlete of the Year category.

Although football is the "eldest son" of sports, it is like the saying "the emperor loves the eldest son, and the people love the youngest son". The Lawrence World Sports Award is the most important award for the best male athlete of the year. They don't like football at all. After all, they love noble sports such as tennis, F1 and golf. They are the "favored youngest children" in the eyes of the Lawrence Award judges!
In the selection of the best male athlete of the year in the past 7 Lawrence World Sports Awards, each of these three sports was divided up twice, and the remaining one was won by Cycling Armstrong.

Under such circumstances, Yin Jun naturally has doubts about whether he can win the award this year.

(End of this chapter)