Lance Armstrong twice voted Athlete of the Year
Submitted by Brent Hugh on Fri, 12/19/2003 - 6:29pm
Kids across America voted Lance Armstrong Athlete of the Year in a Sports Illustrated for Kids poll.
[St. Louis Cardinals baseball start Albert] Pujols was second with 8,514 votes, followed by LeBron James, Jason Kidd, Michael Vick and Roger Clemens. Last year's winner was Shaquille ONeal.Meanwhile, Armstrong also topped a worldwide Reuters poll of sports journalists to be named Reuters Sportsman of the Year.
The American cancer survivor, who topped the poll with 42 points out of a possible total of 93, matched the feat of Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain when he clinched his fifth title in the sport's biggest race.
"What he's done in that race is extraordinary...He's the number one sportsperson in the world right now," said Ondrej Foltin at the Herald Sun in Australia.
But Armstrong only narrowly beat England rugby union flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson who received 37 points and German six times Formula One champion Michael Schumacher who gained 36 points.
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