Nadal, Ruano-Medina, and the selection of football, the National Sports Awards
The tennis players Rafael Nadal, Anabel Medina and Virginia Ruano, runners and Olympic champion in Beijing 2008 and the Spanish national football team, winner of the last European Championship, were among the winners of the National Sports Awards, along andalusia Wrestling Sergio Agüero.
The National Sports Council (CSD) announced the verdict of the jury for the 2008 National Awards, which recognize, among others, the rider Samuel Sanchez, gold medal at the Games, the basketball player Ricky Rubio, Olympic runner in the capital China and the municipality and the Madrid 2016 Olympic candidacy.
Moreover, the jury of the National Sports Awards, chaired by the Director General of Sports of the CSD, Albert Soler, and composed of members of CSD, COE, federations, autonomous regions, local athletes prestigious distinguished andalusia Olympic gold cycling route, the rider Samuel Sanchez of Euskaltel, the Infanta Doña Elena.
This award honors a person or entity that has been highlighted during the year by a particularly significant gesture of nobility and fair play in sport, as requested Samuel Sanchez share the prize (94,000 euros) for the Olympic gold with the rest of the national team, made up of Carlos Sastre, Oscar Freire, Alejandro Valverde and Alberto Contador.
The guard Ricky Rubio of DKV Joventut, silver in Beijing, the Infanta Doña Cristina picked as athlete of the revelation last year and the trophy will be for the Ibero Argentine striker of Atletico Madrid, Sergio ‘Kun’ Aguero. The Spanish football added to your Baron Güell Cup trophy as the best national team, won the European Championship in Austria and Switzerland.
The Higher Sports Council Award, the local Spanish who has been more prominent over the years for its efforts in promoting the sport, has fallen on the candidature of Madrid 2016, to hear the next 2 October in Copenhagen if the host Olympic event competition with Chicago, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro.
Similarly, Francisco Fernandez Ochoa, the trajectory of a life given, so notorious, in practice, organization, management, promotion and development of Sports, will receive the former pilot and now a commentator Ángel Nieto, twelve times a champion world of motorcycling.
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