{"id":13709,"date":"2025-04-26T21:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T21:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/laureus-awards-tom-pidcock-wins-action-sportsperson-award-after-olympic-gold\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T21:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T21:02:43","slug":"laureus-awards-tom-pidcock-wins-action-sportsperson-award-after-olympic-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/laureus-awards-tom-pidcock-wins-action-sportsperson-award-after-olympic-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Laureus Awards: Tom Pidcock wins Action Sportsperson award after Olympic gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">British cyclist Tom Pidcock has been named Action Sportsperson of the Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/c29dkdrxnnro\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">defended his Olympic mountain bike title<\/a> in dramatic fashion at the 2024 Paris Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pidcock suffered a puncture and had to change wheels before fighting back to win gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is the fourth British cyclist to win the award after Jamie Bestwick (2014), Rachel Atherton (2017) and Beth Shriever (2022).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, American gymnast Simone Biles was crowned Sportswoman of the Year for a record-equalling fourth time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After taking a break from the sport, Biles returned to win three golds and a silver at last summer&#8217;s Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis was named Sportsman of the Year after he broke his own world record to win Olympic gold in Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He outdid himself again a month later at the Silesia Diamond League meeting &#8211; the 10th time he has broken his own world record.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/c1egv3pdn6wo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British cyclist Tom Pidcock has been named Action Sportsperson of the Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards. The 25-year-old defended his Olympic mountain bike title in dramatic fashion at the 2024 Paris Games. Pidcock suffered a puncture and had to change wheels before fighting back to win gold. He is the fourth British cyclist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13711,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13709\/revisions\/13711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}