The 2009 Laureus Nominations were announced and Rafa, Venus, Ana, and Nole are all up for one. Rafa is up for Sportsman of the Year, Venus is up for Sportswoman of the Year, and Ana and Nole are both nominated for World Breakthrough of the Year.
But more importantly, I want to party with the Laureus World Sports Academy. Check out the 46 members:
Giacomo Agostini, Marcus Allen, Severiano Ballesteros, Franz
Beckenbauer, Boris Becker, Ian Botham, Sergey Bubka, Bobby Charlton,
Sebastian Coe, Nadia Comaneci, Yaping Deng, Marcel Desailly, Kapil Dev,
David Douillet, Emerson Fittipaldi, Sean Fitzpatrick, Dawn Fraser,
Cathy Freeman, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Mika
Häkkinen, Tony Hawk, Mike Horn, Miguel Indurain, Michael Johnson, Kip
Keino, Franz Klammer, Dan Marino, John McEnroe, Edwin Moses (Chairman),
Nawal El Moutawakel, Robby Naish, Ilie Nastase, Martina Navratilova,
Alexei Nemov, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Morné du Plessis, Hugo Porta,
Vivian Richards, Monica Seles, Mark Spitz, Daley Thompson, Alberto
Tomba, Steve Waugh and Katarina Witt.
Any list that has Cathy Freeman is a list I want to be on. Can you imagine how awesome a kegger in the Swiss Alps would be with this crew? Keg stands with Tomba? Fuck yeah.
UPDATED: To include Rafa. Duh.
