Allyson Felix, Naomi Osaka Earn Women's Sports Awards
NEW YORK (AP) — Olympians Allyson Felix and Jordan Larson were respected as Sportswomen of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation.
Felix won two awards at the Tokyo Games — giving her 11 in her vocation — to outperform Carl Lewis as the most enlivened American in olympic style sports history. Larson drove the U.S. Ladies' volleyball crew to triumph against Brazil for its first Olympic gold award.
Naomi Osaka procured the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award for carrying attention to civil rights and psychological well-being issues at the Annual Salute to Women in Sports on Wednesday night. 토토사이트 검증
"I got the fortitude just to stand up growing up and seeing every one individuals around me doing astounding things," Osaka said, "and not having any dread and supporting what they trust in."
Kim Ng of the Miami Marlins, the primary female senior supervisor in baseball, gotten the Billie Jean King Leadership Award. Larry Scott, the previous magistrate of the Pac 12 and previous CEO of the WTA Tour, acknowledged the Champion for Equality Award.
A gathering at the New-York Historical Society in front of the virtual entertainment pageant highlighted King just as previous baseball administrator Joe Torre, Olympic hockey star Meghan Duggan, double cross World Cup champion Julie Foudy, Stanford ladies' ball mentor Tara VanDerveer and Women's Sports Foundation President Phaidra Knight.