{"id":75767,"date":"2015-12-05T23:56:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T22:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=75767"},"modified":"2015-12-05T23:56:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T22:56:02","slug":"novak-nominated-for-us-sports-academys-male-athlete-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/media\/novak-nominated-for-us-sports-academys-male-athlete-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak nominated for US Sports Academy&#8217;s Male Athlete of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75765\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/akademija02.jpg\" alt=\"Novak nominovan za sportistu godine u izboru Sportske Akademije SAD\" width=\"590\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/akademija02.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/akademija02-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/akademija02-267x179.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/akademija02-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/akademija02-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 tennis player is one of 12 men nominated for the United States Sports Academy\u2019s 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/ussa.edu\/athlete-of-the-year-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Male Athlete of the Year<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak, who finishes on top of the rankings for the fourth time in five seasons, was named the Academy\u2019s March Athlete of the Month earlier this year, after winning the Indian Wells-Miami title double for the third time.<\/p>\n<p>Stars like Tom Brady (Football, USA), Adam Peaty (Swimming, GBR), LeBron James (Basketball, USA), Usain Bolt (Track and Field, JAM), Stephen Curry (Basketball, USA) and Renaud Lavillenie (Track and Field, FRA) are among nominees.<\/p>\n<p>The 31st Annual Athletes of the Year ballot is now open to the public for voting. The winner of this year\u2019s awards will be announced on December 24.<\/p>\n<p>Nole was the 2011 and 2014 Male Athlete of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The Athlete of the Year ballot is the culmination of the Academy\u2019s yearlong Athlete of the Month program, which recognizes the accomplishments of men and women in sports around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Show your support and vote for your favourite athlete <a href=\"http:\/\/ussa.edu\/athlete-of-the-year-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AFP\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.1 tennis player is one of 12 men nominated for the United States Sports Academy\u2019s 2015 Male Athlete of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":75765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[101010940],"class_list":["post-75767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-other-news","tag-united-states-sports-academy-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75768,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75767\/revisions\/75768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}