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The Associated Press is asking its members to vote on their choice for Athlete of the Decade. Their selection will be announced Dec. 16.
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As another decade comes to a close the AP gets together to pick the best athlete of the decade, and of course the ATP's
Roger Federer is one of the front runners to represent for the tennis community. Just a bit of what Federer has done in the past decade.
-Won 15 Grand Slam titles
-17 of the last 18 grand slam finals have featured the superstar, he's been in 21 overall (think if he'd won them all)
-He's sat at the top of the men's tennis rankings for 237 weeks, which translates to about 4.5 years. (This is consecutive)
-Appeared in all 40 grand slams from 2000-2009. Only one other person has done this, ever.
If that's not enough to take the title, I don't know what else he'd have to do, in my opinion tennis is one of the most physically grueling sports today. Players trek around the world weekly, and are barely home.
What do you think? Should he win it? Other possible contenders could be Tiger Woods (but we know he's out due to recent events..)...and well nobody else has really done anything amazing besides Lance Armstrong and Usain Bolt..
12/18 Update
So the AP released the athlete of the decade..
1. Tiger Woods
2. Lance Armstrong
3. Roger Federer
Now by all means, I don't think Tiger should have won, neither should Roger. But Lance Armstrong should have been at the top of this list. How many people can say they've won the Tour de France 7 times, bounced back from testicular cancer that'd spread to the brain and lungs, and have a foundation for which hundreds of thousands of people (one of them being my own boss) sporting a wristband for?
I'm gonna go with none.
What would your list look like? Some are dissapointed of the exclusion of American swimmer Michael Phelps from the top three.
What's on your mind?
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