Will Marco Odermatt make Sports Awards history this evening? He could become the first to achieve the pass of four during this evening which honors the best athletes of the year.
Marco Odermatt could, in fact, be honored for a fourth consecutive year, a performance that has not been achieved by Vreni Schneider, five times winner, and, above all, Roger Federer who has been named sportsman of the year… seven times . In 2005, the Basel tennis player was beaten to everyone’s surprise by Tom Lüthi, 19 years old at the time and 125 cc world champion, the third division of motorcycling sport. Roger Federer has never hidden the fact that he was unpleasantly surprised by this verdict which was considered aberrant by all foreign observers.
After having signed last year the third hat-trick in the history of the Sports Awards to equal the cyclist Tony Rominger (1992/1993/1994) and the gymnast Ariella Kaeslin (2008/2009/2010), Marco Odermatt is still favored by the prognosis. The skier won a new World Cup at the end of a successful winter.
Noè Ponti “victim” of the regulation
Triple short course world champion last month in Budapest, Noü Ponti could have been on the same line as the Nidwalden. However, it is the results obtained between November 2023 and October 2024 that are taken into account for these Awards. Furthermore, the Ticino native failed to reach the podium at the Paris Games.
The four other nominees are the athletes Dominic Lobalu and Simon Ehammer and two medalists at the Paris Games, the Jura rider Steve Guerdat and the Geneva swimmer Roman Mityukov.
Lara Gut-Behrami favorite to own succession
Sportswoman of the Year 2023, Lara Gut-Behrami will also be favorite in her own succession. Like Marco Odermatt, the Ticino won the World Cup by a significant margin. Freestyle specialist Mathilde Gremaud, athletes Mujinga Kambundji and Angelica Moser are among the six nominees, as are the two medalists from the Paris Games, Olympic triathlon vice-champion Julie Derron and Olympic shooting champion Chiara Leone. Four awards will be awarded Sunday. They will go to Team of the Year, Paralympic Athlete, Coach of the Year and MVP of the Year. Brilliant quarter-finalist at the Euro, the Swiss football team will play the match with the ice hockey team, finalist at the Prague World Cup. But this duel between football and hockey should not make us forget that Switzerland remains, more than ever, a nation of skiers.
This article was automatically published. Source: ats
