(openPR) Frankfurt / Abu Dhabi Feb.2011 The main Media Centre & offices will be based on the 1st floor of the Emirates Palace (Conference Room).
Media facilities provided from Saturday 5th February: Saturday 5th Feb,09:00 – 21:00 Sunday 6th Feb, 09:00 – 21:00 Monday 7thFeb, 09:00 – 23:00 The MEDIA INFORMATION office will be based outside Room C004 (Conference Centre) on the 1st floor (lower level). Upon your arrival at the Emirates Palace please follow the signs to the media centre. The Media Information office is open from Tuesday 1st February 09:00 – 19:00.
Sunday 6th February One-on-one and cluster interviews, Rolling press conferences Monday 7th February One-on-one and cluster interviews Rolling press conferences. Press Conferences will take place in the main media centre on the 1st floor (lower level)
PRESS CONFERENCES A schedule of press conferences and interviews will be published in the Media Centre and on the notice board in the Media Working Room. We highly recommend that you register on the archive BEFORE your arrival.
MEDIA FUNCTIONS Sunday 6th February – Media Welcome Function Venue – Oriental Café (level 4) (outdoor venue) Time: 21:00 – 00:00 Monday7th February – Awards Night Media Dinner. Venue: l’Auberge Restaurant, Emirates Palace (close to the main media centre, Level 1) Time: 21:00 – 00:00 golf-update.de supports with mircoblogging, press releases, public relations and articles. www.golf-update.de
RED CARPET ACCESS & ARRANGMENTS LAUREUS WELCOME PARTY
SUNDAY 6TH FEBRUARY Venue: YAS MARINA YACHT CLUB MEDIA SHUTTLE BUS SERVICE FOR ACCESS TO PRESS PENS & MEDIA OPPS: From Emirates Palace (ViaIntercontinental) Journey time approx 30 minutes. PICK UP POINT: Return shuttles at: 21.00, 21.30, 22.00, 22.30 and 23.00 On the return journey from the Yas Marina Yacht Club buses will drop first at the Intercontinental and then the Emirates Palace
AWARDS NIGHTS MONDAY 7TH FEBRUARY Venue: Emirates Palace
PLEASE NOTE – YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED INTO THE PENS AFTER THE STRICT CLOSING TIME.
Timings:Red carpet arrivals start at: 17:45 Awards ceremony starts at 19:30 Winners media opportunities in media centre follow shortly afterwards (starting within 15mins) – Photo call and Press Conference. A glittering collection of the world's greatest sports stars have just days to wait to discover if they have been awarded one of the prestigious 2011 Laureus World Sports Awards.
The Laureus World Sports Awards, which recognise sporting achievement during the calendar year 2010, are the premier honours on the international sporting calendar. The winners, as voted by the Laureus World Sports Academy, the ultimate sports jury, made up of 46 of the greatest sportsmen and sportswomen of all time, will be unveiled at a televised Awards Ceremony staged in Abu Dhabi on Monday, February 7.
The list of individual Nominees in seven categories reads like a who's who of sport, including Kobe Bryant, Kim Clijsters, Stephanie Gilmore, Justine Henin, Martin Kaymer, http://www.golf-update.de Lionel Messi, Rafael Nadal,Valentino Rossi, Kelly Slater, Esther Vergeer, Sebastian Vettel,Lindsey Vonn, Shaun White and Serena Williams.
The Laureus World Team of the Year category looks to be one of the most competitive ever. The Spain World Cup Team's first ever win in South Africa will make them strong contenders, but also nominated are the European Ryder Cup Team, Champions League winners Inter Milan, NBA
winners Los Angeles Lakers, the Red Bull Formula One Team and the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team.
Laureus World Sports Academy Chairman Edwin Moses said: "This has been a great year for sport and the Academy have found it extremely difficult to decide who to vote for as winners. We have had several massive events in 2010 - notably the FIFA World Cup and the Winter
Olympics and Paralympics, and that has been reflected in the Nominations, but there has also been some great golf, tennis and motor sport. There has been a host of amazing individual and team performances and I congratulate all the Nominees. It promises to be the most exciting Awards we have ever had next week in Abu Dhabi."
The full list of Nominees for the 2011 Laureus World Sports Awards is:
Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Kobe Bryant (US, basketball), Andres Iniesta (Spain, football), Lionel Messi (Argentina, football), Rafael Nadal (Spain, tennis), Manny
Pacquiao (Philippines, boxing), Sebastian Vettel (Germany, motor racing)
Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year
Kim Clijsters (Belgium, tennis), Jessica Ennis (UK, athletics),
Blanka Vlasic (Croatia, athletics), Lindsey Vonn (US, skiing), Serena
Williams (US, tennis), Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark, tennis)
Laureus World Team of the Year
All Blacks (New Zealand, rugby), European Ryder Cup Team (golf), Inter Milan (Italy, football), Los Angeles Lakers (US, basketball), Red Bull Formula One Team (Austria), Spain World Cup Team (football)
Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year
Martin Kaymer (Germany, golf), Christophe Lemaitre (France,athletics), Matteo Manassero (Italy, golf), Thomas Muller (Germany,football), Louis Oosthuizen (S.Africa, golf), Teddy Tamgho (France,athletics)
Laureus World Comeback of the Year
Paula Creamer (US, golf), Tyson Gay (US, athletics), Justine Henin (Belgium, tennis), Carolina Kluft (Sweden, athletics), Merlene Ottey (Slovenia, athletics), Valentino Rossi (Italy, motor cycling)
Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability
Verena Bentele (Germany, skiing/biathlon), Matt Cowdrey (Australia, swimming), Daniel Dias (Brazil, swimming), Jakub Krako (Slovakia,skiing), Esther Vergeer (Netherlands, wheelchair tennis), Lauren Woolstencroft (Canada, skiing)
Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year
Jamie Bestwick (UK, BMX), Victor Fernandez (Spain, windsurfing),Stephanie Gilmore (Australia, surfing), Levi Sherwood (N.Zealand,freestyle moto-cross), Kelly Slater (US, surfing), Shaun White (US,snowboarding)
The Laureus World Sports Awards is returning to Abu Dhabi thanks to the support of Aabar Investments PJS, who will once again be Host Partner for the event. His Excellency Khadem Al Qubaisi, Chairman ofAabar, said: "The Laureus World Sports Awards is a unique event. It was magnificent, a great success for Abu Dhabi when it was held here last March. The whole event was really superb. We will certainly try to do something special for this year's Awards."
Double Oscar winner Kevin Spacey will once again host the Awards Ceremony which is attended by leading sportsmen and women from around the world. In the audience at a packed auditorium at the Emirates Palace last year were Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Britishfilm stars Hugh Grant and Clive Owen and American actors Kyle MacLachlan and Michelle Rodriguez. Among the names of the winners of the 2010 Laureus World Sports Awards announced in Abu Dhabi were Usain Bolt, Serena Williams, Jenson Button, Kim Clijsters, Natalie du Toit and Stephanie Gilmore.
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