Alistair Brownlee\u2019s actions at WTS Cozumel, when he helped his brother Jonny across the line,\u00a0has earned him a nomination for the \u2018Best Sporting Moment\u2019 award at the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards, the Oscars of the sporting world.<\/p>\n
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WTS Cozumel: all the drama and emotion in pictures<\/p>\n
This is a new category at the awards and members of the public will be able to vote for their favourite moment from the shortlist\u00a0at\u00a0mylaureus.com.\u00a0By voting, fans are in with the chance of winning VIP tickets to the Laureus World Sports Awards.The voting period lasts from January 16th\u00a0to February 4th.<\/p>\n
\u00a0These prestigious annual awards\u00a0celebrate the outstanding achievements of sportsmen and sportswomen around the world and other great names recognised included tennis players Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic, not to mention triathlon\u2019s very own\u00a0Jan Frodeno, who was crowned the Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year last year.<\/p>\n
The 2017 awards are to be held in\u00a0Monaco on\u00a0February 14<\/p>\n
The \u2018Best Sporting Moment\u2019 shortlist<\/p>\n
1.<\/strong> Alistair Brownlee helping exhausted brother, and fellow competitor, Jonny, across the finish line at the Triathlon World Series.<\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> FC\u00a0Barcelona\u2019s under 12\u2019s proving\u00a0football\u00a0really is a gentleman\u2019s game by consoling their Japanese rivals, Omiya Ardija, after defeating them in the Final of the\u00a0Junior Soccer World Challenge.<\/p>\n 3.<\/strong> At the Hopman Cup in Perth, US tennis player Jack Sock proved sportsmanship isn\u2019t dead by advising Aussie opponent Lleyton Hewitt to challenge the umpire\u2019s decision that a shot was out<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 4.<\/strong> The Icelandic national football team met by a crowd of thousands in the capital city of Reykjavik upon returning from Euro 2016, and all taking part in an \u2018Icelandic\u00a0thunder clap\u2019<\/p>\n 5.<\/strong> New Zealand\u2019s\u00a0Nikki Hamblin and Abbey D\u2019Agostino\u00a0of the US helping each other after colliding in their 5000m heat at the Olympic Games\u00a0in Rio de Janeiro<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 6.<\/strong> The touching image that captured the hearts of football fans across Europe; a young Portuguese fan embracing a sobbing French man after France lost in the Euro 2016\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n