GSP: Sportsnet Canadian Athlete Of The Year

GSP: Sportsnet Canadian Athlete Of The Year

As if there weren’t enough reasons to love Georges St-Pierre, he has gone ahead and won for the second year in a row Sportsnet’s Canadian Athlete of The Year award, beating out Sydney Crosby yet again, who was the winner two years ago in 2007. The year 2008 marked the first time in Sportsnet history that a mixed martial arts fighter was named Canadian Athlete of the Year.

GSP received more than 60% of the fans’ votes on Sportsnet.ca during the week-long voting process. (I would like to state for the record that I did not vote for this, nor did I stuff any ballot boxes)

GSP told Sportsnet about beating fellow Canadian Sydney Crosby: “Congratulations to Sidney Crosby, it is a great honour to be nominated with him. Crosby is a great hockey player and in a country where hockey is king it says a lot about the growth of MMA for me to win this award again.”

Needless to say this fan finie is ecstatic about the news and will put a rush on the order of that life-size cardboard cutout of GSP she asked Santa for Christmas before they are sold out.

Read Sportsnet’s story here.