Tiger Woods Athlete Of The Decade

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Tiger Woods was voted the Athlete of the Decade by The Associated Press on Wednesday. Cyclist Lance Armstrong came in second place on the list of the Decade’s Best Athletes, earning 33 votes for winning the Tour de France six times this decade while battling cancer. Grand Slammin’ tennis ace Roger Federer followed, receiving 25 votes.

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Should Tiger Woods have been voted the Best Athlete of the Decade?

The controversial selection comes in the midst of a image-shattering sex scandal linking the fallen golfer to 14 women.

“His 10 years of incomparable golf [outweigh] nearly three weeks of a salacious sex scandal,” The AP wrote in an article explaining the selection.

Woods has won more PGA Tour titles in the past decades than all but four of golf’s greatest players won during the span of their careers, the news agency adds, pointing out his 64 worldwide victories and 12 majors dating to 2000.

Tiger received 56 of the 142 votes cast in the AP survey of sports editors. More than half of the ballots were cast after the controversial Nov. 27 car crash that lead the golfer to admit to a series of extramarital affairs.