Chapter 518: Breakthrough Award of the Year

The Laureus red carpet lasted for nearly two hours, and although the entire red carpet show was livestreamed, there were very few people who really watched the whole process, and the audience waited for the athletes from their own country or their favorite athletes to finish watching it, or they just did something while swiping photos or clips on the Internet.

The awards ceremony officially started at 8 p.m. local time - 2 p.m. China time, in recent years, Lawrence likes to find Hollywood superstars to host, and this year is no exception, inviting Hollywood tough guy superstar Dwayne Johnson.

Dwayne Johnson was born in an American wrestling family, he was an American football player in college, the kind that won the national championship, he began to join the World Professional Wrestling League at the age of 26, and began his career as an actor in 01 when he filmed "The Mummy Returns".

Dwayne Johnson is certainly an athlete and a good speaker — it's impossible to say you're going to run in the election without a certain level of oratory — and in all respects, he's a good fit to host the Laureus Awards.

The opening is a talk show of Dwayne Johnson, the level is still quite high, and the effect is also very good, the sports superstars who were not present and what has happened in the past year have been ridiculed, as the most shining new star in the sports world this year, Meng Fan is of course also the material in the talk show, and it has appeared twice, the beginning and the end correspond before and after, the effect is outstanding, and Meng Fan was also amused to applaud happily in the audience.

In addition to having big-name hosts, of course, world-class singers were also invited to perform, one of them is the "only designated diva in Shandong" daily, singing two songs are "We-Found-Love" and "Towards-the-sun", she is also Meng Fan's favorite European and American singers.

With the arrival of two F1 legends, Giacomo Agostini and Mikdouhan, it is also a sign that the first prize will be won in their hands.

The first award to be opened this year is the Best Comeback Athlete of the Year Award, the nominations include judo athlete Teddy Riner, who was suspended for about half a year due to injury last year and paid last year, at the beginning of his comeback, Teddy definitely still maintains the dominance of the judo project, if, if he did not meet Meng Fan's sideways and beat him twice, Teddy is basically the Olympic champion, so the possibility of winning the annual comeback award is still there, not as the current one with the lowest probability of winning the award among the six candidates。

Of course, even if there is no Meng Fan, the possibility of him winning the award is really there, relatively speaking, the probability is still a bit low, not to mention that there is also an athlete who is considered to be 100% awarded in this nomination, that is, after being in a coma for five years, he finally woke up after two years of recovery and went on the track again.

As a result, there were no surprises and no disputes.

When the car god took the stage, the audience stood up, cheered for his legendary career, applauded his miraculous awakening, and the cheers and applause lasted for a long time, many athletes on the scene were silent, and countless viewers watching the live broadcast were also moved.

As soon as this award opened, it touched the world and made this year's Lawrence a bright spot, and there is no need to say anything about the topic.

The process of winning the lottery and awarding the award and the acceptance speech is still quite fast, and the host does not have much time to interview the car god, but it takes a lot of time in the interactive link, especially the interaction between the award presenters and special guests and the car god, and the process is also quite touching.

This was followed by two non-five-award awards, the Sportsmanship and Sports for Good Award, followed by the Breakthrough Athlete of the Year Award, one of the five awards.

The Laureus Five Awards refer to the five awards selected by the Laureus Athletic Institute, Best Male and Female Athlete, Best Team, Best Breakthrough and Best Comeback, these five awards are definitely the best male and female athletes in terms of gold content, and the other three are not much different.

Three of the six athletes nominated for the Best Breakthrough award this year are the Jamaican teenager who won the Olympic silver medal in the women's 100m dash on her Olympic debut, the basketball superstar who set a new NBA record for three-point points in a single season, and the absolute ruler of the lifting and wrestling triath, while the other three are from swimming, cycling and F1.

The winners of the Best Breakthrough Award were French judo legend Daweide and American boxing legend Marven, after walking on stage, after the two introduced themselves and said hello, Marven asked with a smile: "Daweide, tell me honestly, who are you voting for?"

All five awards are voted by secret ballot among the members of the Society.

Da Weide did not shy away from and hesitated at all and said: "Of course it is Hua Xia Meng! He is the athlete who has the most hope of winning Laureus among our judoka, and I will definitely vote for him!" “

"Oh my God, if I tell me that it was him too, can you give me my handle back?"

"Are you really voting for him?"

"Really!"

"In that case...... Then I can think about it...... Next time, threaten you with your handles. ”

The prize was won in the joke of these two celebrities, Marven opened the award envelope, his face was quite exciting, and then handed the envelope to Da Weide, Da Weide was stunned, and then took out his eyes from his pocket and looked at it carefully, and then shouted out the name with great excitement: "Meng Fan! The winner of the Best Breakthrough Athlete of the Year is a judo player from China, Meng Fan!"

Marven pointed at Da Weide and scolded with a smile that others couldn't hear, probably scolding him for deliberately pronouncing Meng Fan's identity as a judo athlete.

To be honest, these two people didn't know who the winner was before opening the envelope, but because of the joke in front of them, many people thought that they already knew, and it sounded a bit "black-box operation". Of course, even if the outside world thinks so, the two will not care.

This is a wonderful moment for David, although the winner is not the French athlete Teddy Rena, but he is still a judoka athlete, and it is an honor to achieve a zero breakthrough for judoka athletes in this award!