Mitch Larkin, the winner of FINA's Best Male Athlete of 2015, was one of many aquatic athletes honored at the FINA Gala in Hungary. Current photo via Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com
Today, FINA announced the winners of its “Best Athlete of the Year” awards at the FINA World Aquatics Gala “Soiree des Etoiles” or “Evening of the Stars” in Budapest, Hungary. The event was live-streamed on FINA’s website earlier tonight.
Is FINA struggling so much that it can’t even produce a video beyond 240p?
swimmer
8 years ago
FINA has a certain point system, and based on that system it will award the swimmer who collects most of the points throughout the year. Everyone has equal chance to participate in any FINA event. Katinka collected the most points in 2015, therefore it is only fair for her to win FINA’s best female swimmer of the year award. These are the facts. The rest is emotion…
Mind you, I can accept that Ledecky gets another Female of the year prize from some other organization, because from a non-biased perspective her achievments in 2015 were outstanding.
If that is the case, then it’s a biased and unequal point system that should be totally reevaluated. Just because the system is the same for everyone doesn’t mean that it is a GOOD system.
luigi
8 years ago
Not to take anything away from Hosszu, but these guys are now a certified bunch of clown. It’s really one of those “I rest my case” times.
bobo gigi
8 years ago
Who cares about these jokes?
I remind you that KL was even not nominated among the best athletes of the year by the supposed expert magazine sports illustrated.
FINA rewards swimmers who swim in world cups. They want to promote that.
Hilarious.
Uberfan
8 years ago
Only way katinka won’t win swimmer of the year is if Steve Harvey announces it. She’s great no doubt but come on Ledecky won 5 medals broke 2 long course world records for the fiftieth time ever and got 4 invdiduaI golds in Kazan in all 4 distance events. She deserves it but just wait till Rio if FINA doesn’t give it to her after that it’s obvious they’re still corrupt
Gina
8 years ago
The Academy Awards apparently have every single person in every event wrong. Faint cries of “I too came out of Africa ” will not suffice .
GI
8 years ago
The last video, they dared to ask Katie to leave a message.
She looks like don’t want to be disturbing at all.
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Is FINA struggling so much that it can’t even produce a video beyond 240p?
FINA has a certain point system, and based on that system it will award the swimmer who collects most of the points throughout the year. Everyone has equal chance to participate in any FINA event. Katinka collected the most points in 2015, therefore it is only fair for her to win FINA’s best female swimmer of the year award. These are the facts. The rest is emotion…
Mind you, I can accept that Ledecky gets another Female of the year prize from some other organization, because from a non-biased perspective her achievments in 2015 were outstanding.
If that is the case, then it’s a biased and unequal point system that should be totally reevaluated. Just because the system is the same for everyone doesn’t mean that it is a GOOD system.
Not to take anything away from Hosszu, but these guys are now a certified bunch of clown. It’s really one of those “I rest my case” times.
Who cares about these jokes?
I remind you that KL was even not nominated among the best athletes of the year by the supposed expert magazine sports illustrated.
FINA rewards swimmers who swim in world cups. They want to promote that.
Hilarious.
Only way katinka won’t win swimmer of the year is if Steve Harvey announces it. She’s great no doubt but come on Ledecky won 5 medals broke 2 long course world records for the fiftieth time ever and got 4 invdiduaI golds in Kazan in all 4 distance events. She deserves it but just wait till Rio if FINA doesn’t give it to her after that it’s obvious they’re still corrupt
The Academy Awards apparently have every single person in every event wrong. Faint cries of “I too came out of Africa ” will not suffice .
The last video, they dared to ask Katie to leave a message.
She looks like don’t want to be disturbing at all.
^ Completely agree.