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Article: DaimlerChrysler and Richemont Announce Laureus Sports Awards.
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- PR Newswire
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- October 4, 1999
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LONDON, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- DaimlerChrysler and Richemont today announced plans to establish the first ever world-wide sports awards celebration for sporting excellence covering all sports disciplines across all continents. The Laureus Sports Awards, named after the Latin word for laurel, the universal symbol for victory in sport, will be presented to the world's greatest sportsmen and women in an annual ceremony that is set to accomplish for sport what the Academy Awards and Grammy's accomplish for film and music, in glamour, excitement and universal appeal. The inaugural event will be staged in Monaco in May 2000 under the High Patronage of HSH Prince Albert of ...