{"id":359580,"date":"2025-12-21T10:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T10:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359580\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T10:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T10:57:05","slug":"completely-ridiculous-pathetic-and-foolish-thor-hushovd-rages-at-snub-of-uno-x-riders-for-prestigious-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359580\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCompletely ridiculous, pathetic and foolish\u201d \u2013 Thor Hushovd rages at snub of Uno-X riders for prestigious awards"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTour de France progress ignored<\/p>\n

The omission is particularly striking given what Uno-X achieved this season. The team claimed Norway\u2019s first Tour de France stage victory in five years, while also recording its best-ever overall classification result through Johannessen.<\/p>\n

Yet neither rider was considered among the nominees, despite Johannessen finishing the year as the highest-ranked Norwegian cyclist on the world rankings in 50th place. Abrahamsen ends the season ranked 83rd, with Soren Waerenskjold positioned between them in 62nd.<\/p>\n

For Hushovd, the issue goes beyond cycling alone. \u201cWe have to look at the bigger picture, where there are international sports that are a bit un-Norwegian, where we actually perform well,\u201d he told VG. \u201cNot only cycling, but also golf and tennis. There are many things there that aren\u2019t appreciated, while we win gold medal number 300 or 400 in another sport. You have to put things into perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jury responds to criticism<\/p>\n

Hushovd\u2019s comments were put to the jury chairman, Tore Ovreb\u00f8, who also heads Olympiatoppen, Norway\u2019s national elite sport organisation.<\/p>\n

Ovreb\u00f8 acknowledged the disappointment but defended the selection process. \u201cI fully understand that they are disappointed. They have delivered strong performances. However, others have done so as well,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s part of the situation in Norwegian elite sport at the moment. You have to perform at an extremely high level to be nominated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Jonas<\/p>\n

Jonas Abrahamsen gave Uno-X their first Tour de France stage win earlier this summer<\/p>\n

A familiar imbalance<\/p>\n

Cycling\u2019s absence from the shortlist is not new. Hushovd himself remains the only cyclist ever to have won the award, which was established in 2007. He claimed the honour in 2011.<\/p>\n

More recently, the prize has gone to athletes from traditionally dominant Norwegian disciplines, including athletics, football, skiing and biathlon. In January 2025, Olympic decathlon champion Markus Rooth was named Male Athlete of the Year.<\/p>\n

There was, however, some consolation for Uno-X, with the team included among the nominees for Team of the Year \u2013 recognition Hushovd welcomed, even as frustration over the individual snub remained clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tour de France progress ignored The omission is particularly striking given what Uno-X achieved this season. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,71933,82,154972,14507,636,14508],"class_list":["post-359580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-jonas-abrahamsen","tag-sports","tag-thor-hushovd","tag-tobias-johannessen","tag-tour-de-france","tag-uno-x-mobility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}