On the plane, Zhang Guan looked at the sports section of the newspaper about the doping scandal in the United States.

"I remember that Gatlin's doping scandal was only reported in 2006, how could it be a year earlier? Could it be the so-called butterfly effect caused by my arrival? But I haven't even been to the United States, so what does it have to do with me? Zhang Guan thought to himself.

Zhang Guan didn't know that all this was really caused by him. Zhang Guan became a world champion and broke the world record, so Kondo Kamezo was so persistent in investigating Zhang Guan, but he didn't expect to find out Gatlin's problem, and then Kondo Kamezo was arrested in the robbery incident, and directly reported the problem of athletes' doping, and then there was a series of IAAF investigations and a large-scale doping scandal in the United States.

Zhang Guan didn't pay any attention to these things, but he knew that at least in the past few years, it was unlikely that he would meet Gatling in the ring, so he closed the newspaper and closed and began to think about the Laureus Sports Awards.

The nominees for this year's Laureus Sports Awards were announced recently. Among the best male athlete nominees are six-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher, tennis king Roger Federer, Olympic 1500m and 5000m champion Shiram El Queroy and four-time MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi. Tiger Woods, a multi-time award-winning golfer before, was not nominated.

The best female athlete nominees are pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva, Olympic heptathlon champion Carolina Crawford, Olympic 800m and 1500m champion Kelly Holmes, seventh golf quadruple champion Annika Sorenstein and Olympic cycling champion Leontian van Mossel.

As for the nominations for the Best Newcomer award, in addition to Zhang Guan, Sharapova and Phelps, there are 17-year-old French women's swimming champion Raoul Manado, 19-year-old Spanish motorcycle champion Danny Piedrosa and 17-year-old Athens boxing silver medalist Amir Han. This Aamir Khan is not the Indian movie star, but an Englishman, but with the same name.

It is worth mentioning that all the athletes nominated for this year's Best Newcomer are under the age of 20. Phelps, the oldest, won't turn 20 until next month.

Judging from the nomination of Best Newcomer, Phelps is undoubtedly the first favorite, followed by Zhang Guan and Sharapova, and as for several other young athletes, neither achievements nor fame in the field of sports can compare with these three.

But Zhang Guan knows that Sharapova is unlikely to win the Best Newcomer Award, because this year, Federer defeated a series of strong players such as Schumacher and Armstrong to become the best male athlete, and the award committee wanted to balance the interests of various competitions. It is unlikely that another tennis player will be picked for the best newcomer.

But track and field is different, track and field is a big event, which is divided into many small events, and a remarkable achievement in each small event is enough to enter the nomination, and the same is true for swimming, so it is possible that there will be multiple track and field winners or multiple swimmers in a Laureus Award.

"Phelps! It's still Phelps! With him here, I'm afraid it will be very difficult for me to win this newcomer award! Forget it, don't think about it, sleep! Zhang Guan changed to a more comfortable position. Get ready to fall asleep.

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In the Laureus Award committee, the judges are also having a heated discussion.

"Schumi [Schumacher] dominated F1 again last year, he won 13 races all season and I think he is a good fit to be the best male athlete."

"No, no, no. Schumacher won the Best Male Athlete award last year and the year before, and I think it should be given to Armstrong, who is said to be retiring after this year's Tour de France. ”

"Wasn't Armstrong the best male athlete of the year before! I think there should be some new faces in this award. Like Federer! Federer won a total of eleven titles last year, including three Grand Slams. ”

The crowd expressed their opinions, followed by a vote. Federer was named the best male athlete.

In the women's event, the favourite Isinbayeva lost to the Briton Holmes, mainly because Isinbayeva is Russian.

In the immediate aftermath of the voting for the best sports team of the year, the Italian men's football team won the favor of the award committee, beating strong opponents such as the Argentine men's football team, Portugal's FC Porto and Italy's Ferrari team. The so-called most sportsmanlike Iraqi football team, which was touted in the Olympics, was not even nominated.

Obviously, these judges are not so impartial, they prefer to choose athletes from Western European developed countries under equal conditions, and the PR behind the nominees will also play a big role at this moment. Like the Iraqi football team, it played so tenaciously in the Olympics because there was no one behind the PR and couldn't even get in the nomination.

Next, everyone began to express their opinions on the Best Newcomer Award.

"Since Federer is already the best male athlete, I don't think there's any need to give Sharapova the best newcomer award, and she's also Russian, even though he grew up in the United States."

Although the Cold War has ended for more than ten years, Western European countries are still generally hostile to Russia, and in sports, Western Europe has been suppressed by the former Soviet Union for so many years, and now it is finally no longer afraid of Russia, and naturally does not want to select a Russian athlete.

"And what about Zhang Guan in China? He is the first Chinese and Asian to win the track and field sprint event, the first Asian to break the world record in the track and field sprint event, last year he broke the world record in the 100m sprint twice, and this year, he won seven indoor championships in our Europe and broke the indoor 60m world record twice. This kind of achievement must be put on the best male athlete award, and his popularity in Europe is still very high. ”

"Wouldn't Phelps be more appropriate? Phelps has six gold medals at the Athens Olympics and five world records, and he is a world-class star. ”

"Athletics is obviously getting more attention than swimming. And the recent doping scandal in the United States, which has already involved more than a dozen big stars, makes me still a little puzzled about Phelps. ”

All the jury members fell silent, and the spate of doping scandals that had just erupted, in which many big names were involved, and involved a wide range of projects. Although Phelps was not exposed to the use of illegal drugs, everyone in this room knows what kind of virtue Americans are. At the same time, think about Phelps's usual image is not a good baby, Phelps himself is a little prince of nightclubs, not to mention, he was arrested twice for drunk driving after the Olympics last year, if this kind of person uses illegal drugs, everyone really doesn't think it's strange.

The more advanced the award, the more you care about your authority. If it is some small awards, I would like to come up with some topics to hype myself, but an award of Lawrence's level is obviously unwilling to accept any scandal.

Many of the Academy Award winners are riddled with scandals, and there is all kinds of chaos in Hollywood circles, but this does not affect the authority of the Oscars.

But the Laureus Sports Awards are different, especially when it comes to illegal drugs, and if a Laureus winner is revealed to have used illegal drugs, it means that his achievements are also fake. Selecting an athlete with fraudulent results to be the winner will obviously directly affect the authority of the Laureus Sports Awards, which is precisely the foundation of the survival of the Laureus Awards. This is like if a Nobel laureate's award-winning research is found to be plagiarized by someone else, the authority of the entire Nobel Prize will be questioned.

So far, Phelps has not been implicated in this doping scandal, but what about later? How about doping scandals that continue to be investigated? One big-name athlete after another has been found to have used illegal drugs, and no one knows if the next person to be found out will be Phelps. Not to mention the use of doping, which can even be said to be a tradition for Americans.

Although the members of the award committee have accepted various public relations, everyone's attitude on this kind of thing is still very clear, compared to Phelps, choosing Zhang Guan, who has no negative news, is obviously safer for the entire Laureus Sports Awards.

In the end, as a result of the voting, Phelps didn't get a single vote, but Zhang Guan was recognized by the judges.

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Hotel suites.

"How about me wearing this dress to the Laureus Awards ceremony?" Sharapova spun around in front of Zhang Guan in her gown.

It was a khaki sleeveless gown, without a collar, but just a semi-curved neckline along the collarbone, which looked a little tight at the shoulders, with a corset in the middle, and a pleated skirt under the gown that reached just above the knees, flowing out of the smooth calves.

But Zhang Guan always felt that Sharapova looked a little strong when she wore this outfit.

"You look beautiful, dear." Zhang Guan instantly became sweet-talking. Sure enough, Sharapova was very happy when she heard it.

"By the way, are we going to enter the arena together tomorrow?" Sharapova asked.

"Well, I don't have a problem. But will you have trouble over there......" Zhang Guan said hesitantly.

"I'm okay too. Public events, the media will not think much about it. Sharapova sat down next to Zhang Guan, leaned into his arms, and said: "If you win the prize, the trophy will go to me!" ”

"And what if you win an award? Trophy ......," Zhang Guan asked with a smile.

"The trophy is still mine!" Sharapova leaned up, and the two of them were tired of being together. (To be continued.) )

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