Laureus Award Nominees
Aaron Hadlow has been nominated for the Laureus World Action Sports Person of the year! He has some stiff competition but i reckon its a pretty cool feat that he has been nominated. In fact two kitesurfers made the cut against 1 windsurfer, 1 surfer 1 motocross and a couple of snowboarders. So perhaps kitesurfing is making the mainstream? All three of my final nominees made it. Aaron is the obvious one but you can try and guess the rest. I do think that Guisela's one off achievement hardly stands up to the others in the list but at least she kites, and kites pretty good. And the nominees for Laureus Action Sports Person of the Year are:
• Aaron Hadlow (UK) – aged 17, won PKRA kiteboarding world tour for third time
• Travis Pastrana (US) – motocross star, won three Summer X Games gold medals
• Kevin Pritchard (US) – won windsurfing Wave World Championship
• Gisela Pulido (Spain) – aged 12, won a PKRA kiteboarding event, beating the world champion
• Kelly Slater (US) – won an unprecedented eighth world surfing championship at 34
• Hannah Teter (US) – snowboarder, won ESPY award for Best Action Sports Female Athlete
• Shaun White (US) –won 12 snowboarding events in 2006
Check out http://www.laureus.com/ for more info and http://www.iksurfmag.com/ will have the full story...
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