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<DIV class=HTMLTitle><SPAN id=Ar0260000 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Powell, Simpson head list for RJR Sports Foundation awards </SPAN></DIV><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"><DIV class=HTMLByline><SPAN id=Ar0260005 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">BY DANIA BOGLE Observer staff reporter </SPAN><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"></DIV><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"><DIV class=HTMLContent style="OVERFLOW: auto"><SPAN id=Ar0260001 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">COMMONWEALTH Games gold medallists Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson head the list of ten male and ten female nominees for the 2006 RJR Sports Foundation Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award to be announced at the annual function at the Pegasus Hotel on Thursday, February 1. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Powell twice equalled his 100-metre world record and won gold in the event at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, while Simpson who ended the year at the world’s top sprinter, also won gold in both the 100 and 200-metre events in Melbourne. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The other male nominees are Usain Bolt, Omar Brown, Maurice Smith Maurice Wignall in athletics, footballer Claude Davis, cricketers Chris Gayle and Jerome Taylor, Central America and Caribbean (CAC) Games cycling champion O’neil Samuels and boxer Nicholas Walters. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Commonwealth Games medallists </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0260002 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Veronica Campbell, Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Olivia McKoy, Kenia Sinclair, Trecia Smith and Novelene Williams join CAC Games cycling gold medallist Iona Wynter, and multiple CAC swimming medallist Alia </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0260003 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Atkinson in the female category. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Fourteen category awards in athletics, badminton, cycling, cricket, football, squash, swimming, golf, rifleshooting, horseracing, tennis, table tennis and boxing. </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0260004 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Twenty-two individual awards will be presented to sportspersons who performed well during the year, but were not nominated in the main categories. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">“Anyone who medalled in any major competition last year will be recognised on the night of the award ceremony and will receive a special award,” said chairman of the RJR Sports Foundation, Michael Hall. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The 2006 Chairman’s Award winner will also be announced on the evening of the function for which Grenada Prime Minister, Dr Keith Mitchell, who is also chairman of Caricom’s Cricket Sub-committee will be guest speaker. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Sports associations are usually asked to submit their choices for sportsman and sportswoman. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The RJR Foundation in a bid to involve other members of the sporting fraternity in the no
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">COMMONWEALTH Games gold medallists Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson head the list of ten male and ten female nominees for the 2006 RJR Sports Foundation Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award to be announced at the annual function at the Pegasus Hotel on Thursday, February 1. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Powell twice equalled his 100-metre world record and won gold in the event at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, while Simpson who ended the year at the world’s top sprinter, also won gold in both the 100 and 200-metre events in Melbourne. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The other male nominees are Usain Bolt, Omar Brown, Maurice Smith Maurice Wignall in athletics, footballer Claude Davis, cricketers Chris Gayle and Jerome Taylor, Central America and Caribbean (CAC) Games cycling champion O’neil Samuels and boxer Nicholas Walters. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Commonwealth Games medallists </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0260002 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Veronica Campbell, Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Olivia McKoy, Kenia Sinclair, Trecia Smith and Novelene Williams join CAC Games cycling gold medallist Iona Wynter, and multiple CAC swimming medallist Alia </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0260003 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Atkinson in the female category. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Fourteen category awards in athletics, badminton, cycling, cricket, football, squash, swimming, golf, rifleshooting, horseracing, tennis, table tennis and boxing. </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0260004 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Twenty-two individual awards will be presented to sportspersons who performed well during the year, but were not nominated in the main categories. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">“Anyone who medalled in any major competition last year will be recognised on the night of the award ceremony and will receive a special award,” said chairman of the RJR Sports Foundation, Michael Hall. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The 2006 Chairman’s Award winner will also be announced on the evening of the function for which Grenada Prime Minister, Dr Keith Mitchell, who is also chairman of Caricom’s Cricket Sub-committee will be guest speaker. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Sports associations are usually asked to submit their choices for sportsman and sportswoman. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The RJR Foundation in a bid to involve other members of the sporting fraternity in the no