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*Rafa Nadal has received this distinction for his great 2008
*The tennis player is the second Spaniard to receive this award
*The Mallorquín has shown his appreciation
The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal won the Grand Prize of the French Academy of Sport to the world's greatest sporting feat in 2008, ahead of swimmer Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt athlete.
The Academy praised the Mallorcan's last year for get his fourth consecutive title at Roland Garros and Wimbledon in an "emotional" final against the swiss, Roger Federer.
Furthermore, Nadal climbed atop the podium at the Olympics in Beijing and proclaimed number one world ranking, which until now has been the best year of his career.
The Spanard received the award from Secretary of State for Sports, Rama Yade, the president of the French National Assembly, Bernard Accoyer, and the president of the Academy of Sport, Emmanuel Rodocanachi
"I appreciate this award which I receive in Paris, which is a very important in my career. I think for me the most important place in the world," said Spanard.
The Manacor added that "2008 was almost a perfect year" and said that while in 2009 also had "good performance" has not reached the level of the year for which he is rewarded, "which shows how difficult it is to repeat that year.
"It's not easy to compare one year with others, but I will do everything possible to match what I did in 2008," he said.
The secretary of the Academy and master of ceremony, Jean Durry, said Nadal who distinguished himself in front of athletes as prestigious as the swimmer Michael Phelps or Usain Bolt athlete.
"Receiving the award from the Academy gives me special thrill(...)because I had competitors as important" as Bolt and Phelps, Nadal said to the press after the ceremony.
With the prestigious prize, the Spanish joins a list that included athletes such as Formula One driver Michael Schumacher, the footballer Ronaldo, fellow tennis star Roger Federer, the cyclist Lance Armstrong or the athlete Haile Gebrselassie.
Since 1956 the French Academy of Sport established the prize, also have been awarded pilot legends like Juan Manuel Fangio, the cyclist Eddy Merckx, the swimmer Mark Spitz, Pele the footballer or athlete Irena Szewinska.
The second Spanard in getting this award
Nadal is the second Spanard recognized by the Academy, after the 1995 prize fall to the cyclist Miguel Indurain.
"I am proud to be the only Spanish after Indurain to receive this award. It's not easy winning a prize in France," declared the Mallorcan.
It is also the third tennis player in history to achieve the award, after Federer (2005) and Steffi Graf (1988).