{"id":9257,"date":"2012-12-20T10:19:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=9257"},"modified":"2012-12-20T10:19:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:19:46","slug":"michael-phelps-a-p-male-athlete-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=9257","title":{"rendered":"Michael Phelps, A.P. Male Athlete 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/phelpsmichael.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9258\" title=\"phelpsmichael\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/phelpsmichael-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/phelpsmichael-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/phelpsmichael-255x175.jpg 255w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/phelpsmichael.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By PAUL NEWBERRY<br \/>\n\u00a0AP National Writer<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Michael Phelps has added another triumph to his list of accomplishments: The Associated Press male athlete of the year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The retired swimmer edged out LeBron James in voting announced Thursday, a fitting payoff for winning four golds and two silvers at the London Games, as well as recognition for becoming the most decorated Olympian ever.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Phelps finished with 40 votes in the media balloting, winning the award for the second time. James had 37, followed by track star Usain Bolt with 23.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carl Lewis is the only other Olympic-related star to capture AP male athlete of the year more than once, taking the award in 1983 and &#8217;84 for track and field. The only men honored more than twice are golf&#8217;s Tiger Woods, cyclist Lance Armstrong and basketball&#8217;s Michael Jordan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By PAUL NEWBERRY \u00a0AP National Writer \u00a0Michael Phelps has added another triumph to his list of accomplishments: The Associated Press male athlete of the year. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The retired swimmer edged out LeBron James in voting announced Thursday, a fitting payoff for winning four golds and two silvers at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9259,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions\/9259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}