Sven Kramer 4 times Olympic Champion won the Sporting Outstanding Career Award at ANOC AWARS 2022

please put your hands together for Dutch speed skating Legend he's the all-time leader in nine [Music] percent thank you you've achieved so much in your career so many medals so many records is there one in particular that you're most proud of it's kind of like choosing your favorite child but I know but it's quite difficult actually but I'm most proud of being so long on the top for a long time my uh advisor my Olympic defense started in 2006 in Torino and then the dope in the 2022 in Beijing and uh especially for me it was specific the 5K won four gold medals will problem less and yeah that's special for me to win three times 5K in a row that is legendary feet and on that line I would like to ask you do you have advice for athletes on how to stay at the top of their career for so long what would be your one tip well I think it's really important to work hard get committed on your goals and trying to create professional teams with a specific members of the team helping you all day long and I think it's it's really important to have some fun I had a lot of fun doing my ride and of course and I'm really thankful everybody who's there to do my right successfully all right well thank you very much and congratulations thank you very much [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]