A Choice to be Made: The 2020 SI Sportpersons of the Year
In a year defined by an unprecedented pandemic, a reckoning with systemic racism and a divisive election, our most accomplished athletes were leaders off the field as well as champions on it. LeBron James, Patrick Mahomes, Breanna Stewart, Naomi Osaka and Laurent Duvernay-Tardif each took on unique paths to activism in 2020, earning this year’s Sportsperson of the Year award.