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General => General => Topic started by: Skippernick on 26 November 2012, 10:57:24 pm
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Just announced the shortlist.
Obviously becoming the first brit in 12 years to get on the podium in motogp isn't good enough to get on the list.
Bad luck Cal it was just the wrong year to do it. Maybe win a race next year and you'll get in there.
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1st ever GB Tour de France win ever and an Olympic gold medal in the time trial?
OK, I know it's not football but it must be worth a vote or 2 for Bradley Wiggins,,,
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Jessica Ennis would get my vote for what she did in the Olympics but mainly because she's a fox ;)
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Andy Murray gets my vote, 1st Grand Slam title win in over 70 years and a Gold Medal
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:stop Andy Murry lacks personality
On that basis it should probably go to Bradley Wiggins but then Katherine Grainger showed true dedication to sport and Ben Ainslie is apparently the greatest sailor of all time. I can't make my mind up to be honest.
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Tough decision. Murray has done fantastically well but it's only tennis. Ainsley and Hoy both incredibly consistent performers over a long period. Farah provided possibly the moments of the Games and winning both 5/10000 is an incredible achievement. Ennis is such a brilliant all rounder.
But I can't get past Wiggo for my vote. Apart from the fact that the Tour is just so incredibly tough he is the first ever Brit to win it. Plus he has a fantastic Olympic record - 7 medals, more than any other Brit apart from Hoy who has the same. And on top of that he is a real personality. What more has a man to do . . . .
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Just look at Ryan Giggs, what exactly did he do that was that special to win it, even he looked embarrassed....Wiggins does look favourite though
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joint winners parhaps :rolleyes
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What's Eddie the Eagle doing these days :lol
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Obviously becoming the first brit in 12 years to get on the podium in motogp isn't good enough to get on the list.
It isnt. In an Olympic year with so many golds he wouldnt be in my top 100. Then there are the other sports...
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What's Eddie the Eagle doing these days :lol
adverts on TV or eye surgery!!
gen dit!
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Double glazing!
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Being a cyclist Wiggo would be high on my list anyway, but given his achievements and the fact he's got a personality, he's got to be fave. I think he'll win by quite a big margin.
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Eric Bristow for me. :lol :lol
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I was at the Broadgate Arena when team sky were doing roller racing against the general public (NB: fat bankers) when one of the guys racing against Wiggins had a heart attack!
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It's realistically between Wiggins & Ennis but Jess would get my vote as she had the weight of a nation on her tiny shoulders being the poster girl of the London Olympics.
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I was working at the Olympics, I think they all deserve a vote.
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I was working at the Olympics, I think they all deserve a vote.
Probably the Team Award.
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I was working at the Olympics, I think they all deserve a vote.
me too!
I think that they all did very well but I think Wiggins if only for those sidey's
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Wiggins? But it's only sitting on a bike?
Full credit to our Olympians, but they had four years to prepare. Andy Murray gets my vote. (Even though it's 'only tennis')
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You know, they are having golf at the next olympics.
FFS!
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'Full credit to our Olympians, but they had four years to prepare.'
I think you'll find they do other stuff as well! Such as winning the TdeF. And if not, they probably have 'normal jobs' as well as training.
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Yes, but it's only cycling.
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And Murray has absolutly zero personality, Tori. :pokefun
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Because you know him personally of course.
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Actually i do. Get out of that and stay fashionable.
Well i don't really, but just watch his interviews.
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So you know nothing. Other than, omg, what you see on TV! So it must be true.
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NEIL FRANCIS LENNON
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Well Tori, with that in mind then none of us could possibly comment or vote on any the "personalities" because we only watch them on TV or from a long distance in a stadium, but never actually meet any of them.
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ALISTAIR MURDOCH McCOIST
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It shouldn't be a popularity contest. It's what they've achieved that counts. That's why the comments of 'it's only tennis' etc I find annoying. They all deserve to win on their own merits.
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I agree Tori, which begs the question why was it changed from "Sports Review of the Year" to "Sports Personality of the Year"
Considering the wider general public will read/hear the title and choose from that suggestive title explains some of the weird choices over the year, mainly overpaid footballers.
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If you're taking the "it's only tennis/cycling/*sport*" route then Ennis should win as she competed in more than one sport
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If you're taking the "it's only tennis/cycling/*sport*" route then Ennis should win as she competed in more than one sport
I thought it was one sport with multiple disciplines?
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If you're taking the "it's only tennis/cycling/*sport*" route then Ennis should win as she competed in more than one sport
I thought it was one sport with multiple disciplines?
Heptathlon: seven sports but only one set of medals. :)
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ALISTAIR MURDOCH McCOIST
Lol, but you've spelt murder wrong ;) .
If it's based on what they have achieved then why has Phil Taylor never won it ? Oh yes, I know, darts is not a sport !
In reality there are so many who deserve to win it this year, Wiggins, Ennis, Murray, McIlroy, Frankel ......
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http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-named-sportsman-of-the-year-by-journalists-association (http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-named-sportsman-of-the-year-by-journalists-association)
and there you go,,,,,
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What about team of the year - guess it would include the Olympic cycling team(s) But I'd like to see the England 15 that beat the All Blacks by 20 points last weekend - I actually jumped out of my chair & ran round the room yelling 'dish it out to 'em' at the top of my lungs - highly undignified for a man of my years!!
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What about team of the year - guess it would include the Olympic cycling team(s) But I'd like to see the England 15 that beat the All Blacks by 20 points last weekend - I actually jumped out of my chair & ran round the room yelling 'dish it out to 'em' at the top of my lungs - highly undignified for a man of my years!!
:agree
I was listening on the radio in the car with my daughter asleep in the back, very excited silent cheering. :lol
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What about team of the year - guess it would include the Olympic cycling team(s) But I'd like to see the England 15 that beat the All Blacks by 20 points last weekend - I actually jumped out of my chair & ran round the room yelling 'dish it out to 'em' at the top of my lungs - highly undignified for a man of my years!!
:agree
I was listening on the radio in the car with my daughter asleep in the back, very excited silent cheering. :lol
and me
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Just look at Ryan Giggs, what exactly did he do that was that special to win it, even he looked embarrassed....Wiggins does look favourite though
Giggs is a legend.
Here's an interesting article, Wiggins is mentioned in the last paragraph (good article on cycling though):
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n22/david-runciman/everybody-gets-popped (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n22/david-runciman/everybody-gets-popped)
Those awards are just to make people argue. You have 10 brilliant sportsmen and you have to single one out. No clear cut criterium. So it is a bit of a popularity contest. How can you compare tennis, football and snooker?!? You can choose the best tennis player, the best snooker player. That's as far as it goes. Picking the best footballer is a no win situation - how can you compare a goalkeeper to a striker? Who is "better"?