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The Gooch
12-15-2009, 09:35 AM
The people have spoken and, as he was in 2008, UFC star Georges St-Pierre is their champion.

After a week of voting, the Montreal-based welterweight champion received more than 60 per cent of readers' votes to beat out Stanley Cup champion Sidney Crosby for Sportsnet's Canadian Athlete of the Year.

"Thanks to Sportsnet, all the fans. It's an honour to win the award two years in a row," St-Pierre told Sportsnet on Monday. "Congratulations to Sidney Crosby, it is a great honour to be nominated with him. Crosby is a great hockey player and in a country where hockey is king it says a lot about the growth of MMA for me to win this award again."

St-Pierre was also selected by sportsnet.ca readers for the honour in 2008. Crosby, the Pittsburgh Penguins captain who won his first Cup this past spring, was Sportsnet's Canadian Athlete of the Year in 2007.

St-Pierre's repeat duplicates the feat of Phoenix Sun's guard Steve Nash, who won it in 2005 and 2006.


http://www.sportsnet.ca/mma/2009/12/14/sportsnet_athlete_of_the_year_gsp/


Awesome. Congrats Georges!!!!
Innovator
12-15-2009, 10:22 AM
Good shit GSP
Soda Popinski
12-16-2009, 07:40 AM
Someday I will be Canadian Athlete of the Year.
IC Champion
12-17-2009, 04:44 PM
That's not real Athlete of the year, Lou Marsh award is, and Crosby won it.
Gertner
12-17-2009, 05:22 PM
Daniel Nestor deserved the Lou Marsh award more than Sid.
alvarado52
12-17-2009, 07:13 PM
Sid the Science Kid?

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El Fangel
12-18-2009, 12:01 AM
Fucking Eh.
The Gooch
12-18-2009, 08:09 AM
That's not real Athlete of the year, Lou Marsh award is, and Crosby won it.

The Lou Marsh award is decided by a panel of journalists mostly out of Toronto. Nah give me a fan vote any time.
El Fangel
12-18-2009, 02:55 PM
The Lou Marsh award is decided by a panel of biased journalists mostly out of Toronto. Nah give me a non biased fan vote any time.
IC Champion
12-18-2009, 03:08 PM
The Lou Marsh award is decided by a panel of journalists mostly out of Toronto. Nah give me a fan vote any time.

It's an award from a second rate sports network.
El Fangel
12-18-2009, 03:13 PM
It's an award from a second rate sports network.

For a second rate player.

OHHHHHH
IC Champion
12-18-2009, 03:19 PM
I wouldn't called GSP second rate, that's a bit harsh.

Sidney was the youngest captian ever to win the Stanley Cup, and pretty much carried them to the cup.
OssMan
12-18-2009, 05:51 PM
Good because Sidney Crosby is a piece of shit
Stickman
12-19-2009, 11:42 AM
It's an award from a second rate sports network.

Really? I didn't realize the Toronto Sports Network and the Bore were first rate?
Inadequacy
12-19-2009, 02:21 PM
The Lou Marsh award is decided by a panel of biased journalists mostly out of Toronto. Nah give me a non biased fan vote any time.

Don't think you can really call the fans unbiased
IC Champion
12-20-2009, 06:45 PM
Really? I didn't realize the Toronto Sports Network and the Bore were first rate?

THEY ARE DAMNIT!