great news for Ducati and Stoner?

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he's italian

Good one Lucio

Valentino Rossi nominated for award

Valentino Rossi has again been nominated by the Laureus Academy – which is made up of 46 of the greatest sportspeople of all time – for the 2010 Laureus World Sports Awards, which will be televised live from Abu Dhabi on March 10.
It is the Italian’s fifth nomination for the award – he was also a finalist in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2009 when Michael Schumacher, Roger Federer (twice) and Usain Bolt were triumphant. In 2006 Rossi won the ‘Spirit of Sport’ category.
Chairman of the Academy, former Olympic champion Edwin Moses, today unveiled the list of nominees. Seven-time MotoGP World Champion Rossi is in the ‘World Sportsman of the Year’ category, alongside FC Barcelona’s Argentinean forward Lionel Messi, Jamaican 100m Olympic and World Champion Bolt, Swiss tennis star Federer, Ethiopian long distance runner Kenenisa Bekele and Spanish cyclist and last year’s Tour de France winner Alberto Contador.

In case there are any rich people on here - Indianapolis Motor Speedway are auctioning a load of stuff on the 'Bay in aid of Haiti, and one of them is this autographed pit shirt. It ends tomorrow evening...

thanks a lot ,luca.. It's great interview. Always love every word he answer the question. Positive and so his style.. Lol. Miss him much..

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thanks a lot ,luca.. It's great interview. Always love every word he answer the question. Positive and so his style.. Lol. Miss him much..

A week of recognitions for Valentino Rossi

The MotoGP World Champion is nominated for one of the Laureus World Sports Awards which take place this evening, and tomorrow in Rome he will receive a tribute from the Italian government.

Valentino Rossi will this week receive recognition for his fantastic campaign in the 2009 MotoGP World Championship. This evening (Wednesday) the Italian will be a main player in the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award, for which he is one of six nominees. The televised ceremony, which will recognise sporting achievement for the 2009 calendar year, will take place in the Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi and will be attended by top sportspeople from around the world. Hollywood stars such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Hugh Grant and Clive Owen will also be present, with Kevin Spacey hosting the ceremony.
The winners of the Awards – which celebrate their tenth year in 2010 – are chosen by the Laureus World Sports Academy and are widely regarded as the premier honours on the international sporting calendar. This is the fifth time Rossi has been nominated in the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year category, and in 2006 he won the Laureus Spirit of Sport Award.
Hours later in Rome, on Thursday, Rossi will receive a tribute organised by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his representation of his country on the world stage. The event will take place at the Villa Madama, and will be presided over by Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini. Different MotoGP personalities, ambassadors from countries in which the MotoGP World Championship takes place, and personal invitees of Rossi will join the Italian for the event to celebrate his exceptional achievements.
“The nine times World Champion has sounded the national anthem on 103 occasions in different parts of the world, and has presented the important values of excellence of our country in five continents,” read a notification of the event. “Valentino Rossi has become an icon who represents the marvellous virtues of Italy on a foreign front, making all his compatriots proud to be Italian.”

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Vale hasn't won the laureus award

The Awards were announced in seven categories. The winners were:

Laureus World Sportsman of the Year: Usain Bolt
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all the best Vale....Laureus award...pending for a long time....

whaaaaaaaaat?usain bolt?!

What a pity! but honestly we all know who is faster
It’s hard to appoint a winner when we have a man who is running and a man who is riding a motorcycle, hard to compare. But I think Vale deserve it better

ya dam usain.yes we know who is more faster