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After a telematic meeting, due to the demands of the coronavirus crisis, the jury finally decided to recognize Carlos Sainz (Madrid, 1962) as the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports. At 58, after winning his third Dakar in January (2010, 2018 and 2020) and, a month ago, being proclaimed the best driver in the history of the World Rally Championship, ahead of Ari Vatanen or Sébastien Loeb , he collected a award for the one that has been playing since those 90s in which the World Cup dominated.

Sainz started as a great favorite along with Marc Márquez , six times MotoGP king. Both were among the 17 candidates from 10 different countries who were eligible for the 2020 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports, to succeed the American skier Lindsey Vonn, winner in 2019.

If in the 21st century, Sainz has emerged as one of the dominators of the desert, in the 90s, during the close of the 20th century (and at the start of the next), along with his co-pilot Luis Moya , he became one of the proper names of the world rally championship.

He won two titles with Toyota (1990 and 1992) and was four times runner-up (1991, 1994, 1995 and 1998), with episodes of real misery, like that 1998 Rally of England, where his Toyota Corolla was stranded at just 500 meters from a goal that would have been his third crown. He had 26 wins and 97 podiums in the 196 races he played until 2005.

Telematic meeting

The Princess of Asturias Award for Sports is awarded to "careers that, through the promotion, development and improvement of sport and through solidarity and commitment, have become an example of the possibilities that sports practice brings in benefit of human beings. " The award translates into a sculpture by Joan Miró -representative symbol of the award-, a diploma, a badge and the cash amount of 50,000 euros.

The delivery ceremony is scheduled for next October 16 at the Campoamor Theater in Oviedo, in an act presided over by the kings Felipe and Letizia.

The jury was made up of former athlete Abel Antón Rodrigo, president; the president of the COE, Alejandro Blanco , and the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), Miguel Carballeda ; the former national soccer coach Vicente del Bosque ; the former cyclist Joan Llaneras ; the mountaineer Edurne Pasaban ; the vice president of the IOC, Juan Antonio Samaranch ; and former sailor Theresa Zabell, among others.

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