Originally posted by newmastersswimmer
I see the point that Seagurl has made...but like someone else pointed out, I think that since SI -U.S. is a U.S. based publication that it is o.k. to limit the award to a U.S. athelete....There can be other type international sportsman of the year awards that other athletes can win.....Like the article you go to right after clicking on the link points out....The international race car driver mentioned there (which I don't recall because I don't follow formula 1 racing) is the hands down favorite for an international sportsman of the year award....but the author also points out that this SI award is traditionally for the "U.S." sportsman of the year award.....which I then agree comes down to Lance Armstrong and Phelps....Lance has already won many similar awards in the past is my feeling....and Phelps showed such class as a "relative" newbie on the major sports scene (and his overall performance in Athens was more impressive than either Crocker's, Peirosol's, Thompson's, Beard's, Keller's ...or anyone else's for that matter .......not that many other U.S. swimmers didn't also do very well in Athens!).
Thats why I am "polling" for Phelps....(plus none of the other U.S. swimmers are even listed as candidates for this presigious award anyway....Hence a vote for Phelps is then a vote for swimming as far as this year's award goes).
Very well put. I agree. I didn't consider the international things that are similar to SI that can acknowledge other countries athletic accomplishments. Having said that, it should be an interesting race between Armstrong and Phelps, both have made names for themselves and their sports. But Lance, has been doing it for awhile and Michael kind of burst on the scene.
~Kyra
Originally posted by newmastersswimmer
I see the point that Seagurl has made...but like someone else pointed out, I think that since SI -U.S. is a U.S. based publication that it is o.k. to limit the award to a U.S. athelete....There can be other type international sportsman of the year awards that other athletes can win.....Like the article you go to right after clicking on the link points out....The international race car driver mentioned there (which I don't recall because I don't follow formula 1 racing) is the hands down favorite for an international sportsman of the year award....but the author also points out that this SI award is traditionally for the "U.S." sportsman of the year award.....which I then agree comes down to Lance Armstrong and Phelps....Lance has already won many similar awards in the past is my feeling....and Phelps showed such class as a "relative" newbie on the major sports scene (and his overall performance in Athens was more impressive than either Crocker's, Peirosol's, Thompson's, Beard's, Keller's ...or anyone else's for that matter .......not that many other U.S. swimmers didn't also do very well in Athens!).
Thats why I am "polling" for Phelps....(plus none of the other U.S. swimmers are even listed as candidates for this presigious award anyway....Hence a vote for Phelps is then a vote for swimming as far as this year's award goes).
Very well put. I agree. I didn't consider the international things that are similar to SI that can acknowledge other countries athletic accomplishments. Having said that, it should be an interesting race between Armstrong and Phelps, both have made names for themselves and their sports. But Lance, has been doing it for awhile and Michael kind of burst on the scene.
~Kyra
