GSP bests Sid the Kid for Canadian Athlete of the Year
 

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/..._the_year_gsp/


Awesome. Congrats Georges!!!!

Good shit GSP

Someday I will be Canadian Athlete of the Year.

That's not real Athlete of the year, Lou Marsh award is, and Crosby won it.

Daniel Nestor deserved the Lou Marsh award more than Sid.

Sid the Science Kid?

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Fucking Eh.

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.

For a second rate player.

OHHHHHH

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.

Good because Sidney Crosby is a piece of shit

Really? I didn't realize the Toronto Sports Network and the Bore were first rate?

Don't think you can really call the fans unbiased

THEY ARE DAMNIT!