{"id":2335,"date":"2011-02-07T08:46:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T16:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2011-02-07T08:46:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T16:46:16","slug":"laureus-sports-award-winners-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2335","title":{"rendered":"Laureus Sports Award Winners 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 1-ranked tennis player<strong> Rafael Nadal<\/strong> was named the sportsman of  the year while <strong>Lindsey Vonn<\/strong>, an American skiing champion, won the  sportswoman of the year award at a ceremony on Monday in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>In the other awards, <strong>Spain\u2019s World Cup squad won the team of the year<\/strong>;<strong> Italian motorcycle champion Valentino Rossi<\/strong> claimed the comeback of the  year award; French football great Zinedine Zidane won the lifetime  achievement award and American surfer Kelly Slater took the action  sportsperson of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Winners were chosen by 46 the sports stars who make up the Laureus  sports academy.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n$(function() {\n$('#articleKeywords a').click( function() { var keyword = $(this).text();\nif (keyword.indexOf(' ') != -1)\n$('input#searchString').attr(\"value\", '\"' + keyword + '\"');\nelse\n$('input#searchString').attr(\"value\", keyword);\n$('#simpleSearchForm').submit();\nreturn false;\n});\n});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"articleKeywords\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sport\/article1165282.ece?homepage=true#\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 1-ranked tennis player Rafael Nadal was named the sportsman of the year while Lindsey Vonn, an American skiing champion, won the sportswoman of the year award at a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2335\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,921,190],"tags":[7683,7684,7685,7686,7687,7688,7689,7690,7691,7692,1027,7693,7694,4173,1674,7695,7696],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-and-honours","category-sports-gk","category-sports-today-in-the-news","tag-italian-motorcycle-champion-valentino-rossi","tag-laureus-awards","tag-laureus-awards-2011","tag-laureus-sports-academy","tag-laureus-sports-award","tag-laureus-sports-award-winners","tag-laureus-sports-award-winners-2011","tag-lindsey-vonn","tag-lindsey-vonn-american-skiing-champion","tag-lindsey-vonn-skiing-champion","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-skiing-champion","tag-spains-world-cup-squad","tag-sports-awards","tag-sports-current-affairs","tag-the-laureus-sports-academy","tag-valentino-rossi","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}