On April 22, Madrid will host the presentation of the Laureus World Sports awards to the best athletes in the world in 2023, whose nominations in seven categories will be announced on the 26th, after voting by media outlets from around the world, reports this Wednesday. the organization.
This is the twenty-fifth edition of the annual awards granted by the Laureus World Sports Academy to the best athletes for the merits acquired during the previous year, individually and collectively.
This is a sporting event that adds to the recent announcements that Madrid will have a formula one prize in two years and the capital's aspiration to attract the Olympic Games.
The organization explains that the awards ceremony will be held at Madrid's Cibeles Palace, headquarters of the City Council, and that it will be broadcast around the world on April 22.
The winners of the Laureus World Sport Awards are selected by the 69 members of the Laureus World Sport Academy, "living legends of sport who pay tribute to today's greatest athletes."
"Many of the biggest names in the world of sport, past and present, will be in Madrid in April to pay tribute to the best athletes and teams of 2023. Each of the winners will walk away with a coveted Laureus statuette, one of the symbols most recognizable marks of excellence in sport," says the organization in its press release.
The president of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso; together with the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez Almeida, and the members of the Laureus World Sports Academy, the former footballer, as well as the current Castilla coach, Raúl González, and the former football player Alesasandro del Piero, presented the event.
For Almeida, the awards are "an unbeatable opportunity" for Madrid for being "one of the great world capitals of sport" and for "the values that the Laureus Foundation represents: values of excellence, improvement, effort and sacrifice, with which a city as Madrid identifies itself", while Ayuso considers that the Laureus offers "the magic of sport, of competition, of spectacle and is also attractive for children, for young people and for all those who love sport." Behind this organization is the Foundation whose patron is Nelson Mandela.
Former Madrid player Raúl González, for his part, expresses his "impatience to welcome the Laureus family, our 2024 Nominees and the media from around the world to Madrid for the 25th edition of the awards" in the city. "most beautiful and welcoming place to celebrate a memorable sporting year."
It will be the fifth time that the event will be held in Spain, after Barcelona (2006, 2007) and Seville (2021 and 2022) and on this occasion Madrid now takes over from Paris, the city that hosted the Laureus World Sports Awards in 2023. , in which the Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi, the Jamaican athlete Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and the Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz were awarded.
