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Sports Personality Of The Year

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Percy Dalton
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Sports Personality Of The Year

Post Percy Dalton »

Used to love watching this when I was a kid just to see the fifteen minutes of football.
Nowadays is anyone interested?
Monsieur merde de cheval
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well deserved for Keely Hodgkingson.
I fink she's great
...earned it on MERIT..
Know what I mean
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On a Tuesday.  Irrelevant 
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Massive Attack
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Still say Cootesy should have won it over any of your so called dull as dishwater 'Personalities'. Ooh look at me, I can run a bit fast.. Yeah, but can you go an entire Football Tournament as high as a kite, do the running man in just your underpants and call Klopp and all Scousers cunts without battering an eyelid? Well my man can..

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El Scorchio
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scott_d wrote: 18 Dec 2024, 08:16 It's not running 800m once though.  As with most sports there is a story there about a few 2nd's on the world stage and finally breaking through to win the gold.  Plus going the whole year unbeaten in an 800m race and all the hard work that goes into winning an Olympic Gold medal - training for any athletics endurance running event very tough.  There's allot more to it than that and I do think she should have been up there.

I don't understand how Alex Yee wasn't in the top 3 though.  The amount of training that goes in to being that good at 3 disciplines and how he fought back in the final to catch the leader and win the Gold, plus the year he's had totally dominating Triathlon and winning Gold in the World Championships too.  He's such a great talent but somehow doesn't have the same profile as the likes of the Brownlee brothers or even Keeley has already. 

My vote would have gone for Yee.


 
i agree- Alex Yee can feel really hard done by. Fantastic sportsman and I think that's four olympic medals for him now?
Tom Pidcock possibly could have been in the final 6 as well. 
Unlucky for Root.

Keely was just very high profile. Has she done more than some of the others? Possibly not, but she was the poster girl for the Olympics and by far the most well known in the general populous from those who made the final.

Mary Earps winning last year was a joke, but no real issues with Beth Mead or Raducanu winning it in their respective years, although Raducanu sohuld probably give hers back for all she's done since...
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So.

Camel Toe of the Year, rebranded to get it in before the watershed.

Seems pretty standard BBC fare to me.
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Sven wins cսnt of the year everytime
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14 people won golds at the Olympics' for team GB.

I would think becoming England's leading test run scorer of all time tops that. 
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Council Scum" wrote: 18 Dec 2024, 09:26 Should have been Root. But they got the winner they wanted and pushed. 
Righto. So winning the gold medal in the Olympic 800 metres was nothing to do with it. 
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There was a legged trans person that rightfully should have won it for “they’s” jaw dropping win in the Wandsworth School for Pronoun People’s all invitation Egg and Spoon race.  They were not even nominated !  

But this sadly and predictably reflects the BBC viewing majority a load of psychologically stable, bigots who voted for an able bodied, middle class, AB social grouped, white, christian woman  !!  

Shame on you all !! You should all be cancelled

 
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Should have been Root. But they got the winner they wanted and pushed. 
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You've got to be a bit of a dullard to even be interested in this.

It's such an ironic name for the award.
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Have they changed the keg of bothered yet? 
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Agree that Joe Root should have been in there.
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It's not running 800m once though.  As with most sports there is a story there about a few 2nd's on the world stage and finally breaking through to win the gold.  Plus going the whole year unbeaten in an 800m race and all the hard work that goes into winning an Olympic Gold medal - training for any athletics endurance running event very tough.  There's allot more to it than that and I do think she should have been up there.

I don't understand how Alex Yee wasn't in the top 3 though.  The amount of training that goes in to being that good at 3 disciplines and how he fought back in the final to catch the leader and win the Gold, plus the year he's had totally dominating Triathlon and winning Gold in the World Championships too.  He's such a great talent but somehow doesn't have the same profile as the likes of the Brownlee brothers or even Keeley has already. 

My vote would have gone for Yee.

 
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Winning an Olympic medal is a great achievement but running 800m once to me doesn’t match up to others 
That said she was the favourite from a long way out so the bookies know the score these days

Littler is an obese teenager playing a pub game not a sportsman 
Understand Joe Root made 6 Test centuries & became Englands highest ever Test runs scorer
He or Bellingham who won trophies with Real & made the Euros final would have been worthy winners 
If anyone actually gives a shit
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What a load of old shit. For wankers that pay their tv licence
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Last 4 winners Keely Hodgkinson, Mary Earps, Beth Mead, Emma Raducanu. Golden age of sport........
 
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scott_d wrote: 17 Dec 2024, 20:32 Why is it on a Tuesday night?
 
 
Apparently it clashed on a Sunday with the last World Cup Final so changed it to Tuesday and just stuck with it. Didn't watch it but pleased Keeley won.
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Fair play. Worthy winner. She is brilliant. 

littler coming second is a bit unexpected but good on him. 
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Gary Lineker surely? Well to win something or at least get some kind of honor award

Apart from being a white older male and not gay or disabled, he ticks all the boxes otherwise and he's leaving MOTD!

 
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A lovely nod to Oscar Fairs ❤️

god bless
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Cripples R US
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ABSOLUTE FUCKING NONSENSE
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Why is it on a Tuesday night?
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This evening I had two choices....

1. Watch SPoTY
2. Fix the wardrobe door hinge for Mrs Tea

I've just made a cuppa and then onto No. 2
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box ticking night of the year
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