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Vail Valley’s Mikaela Shiffrin is not ‘Sportswoman of the Year’

Mikaela Shiffrin, the World Cup queen of skiing, with her 88 wins, will not be adding another award to her trophy room Monday.

That title goes to Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, aka The Mommy Rocket, as she was awarded the honor of “Sportswoman of the Year” at the Laureus World Sport Awards Monday night in Paris.

Fraser-Pryce won a fifth World Athletics 100m title and a fifth Diamond League trophy in 2022, continuing her quest as one of the greatest women sprinters of the current era.

In a gala rivaling ESPN’s ESPY Awards, athletes from around the world gathered in glamour for Laureus Sport for Good’s ‘World Sports Awards’ on Monday night in Paris.

Shiffrin, who was not in attendance, will have to wait and see if she will be selected for the honor in 2024, after an incredible year of skiing on the World Cup circuit.

Shiffrin has been nominated six total times — four times for Sportswoman of the Year, once for Comeback of the Year, and most recently Sportswoman of the Year 2023 — in Laureus’ World Sports Awards.

Her competition included the likes of female athletes Alexia Putelas (soccer), Iga Swiatek (tennis), Katie Ledecky (swimming), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (track and field), and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (track and field).

Argentinean soccer-great Lionel Messi claimed Sportsman of the Year and freestyle skiing super-star and Olympic champion Eileen Gu claimed Action Sportsperson of the Year.



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