World champions and world record-breakers Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Mondo Duplantis have been named the World Athletes of the Year.
2022 World Athletics Woman of the Year - Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
2022 World Athletics Man of the Year - Mondo Duplantis
Sorry, but you should have to participate in a certain amount of meets in order to be eligible to be athlete of the year. Sydney shouldn't have won.
It's a bad look for the sport when your "Athlete Of The Year" wants to compete as little as possible, and refuses to run Diamond League races.
