Sports Personality Of the Year

[Deleted member 15344]

He is rightfully World Champion but in a sport where the ability to be champion has more to do with who has the best car than talent, although he certainly gas talent in bucket loads

The third place goes to a lovely lady but only because she won a race after becoming a mum, had she not given birth a few weeks earlier, and won, I don't see her being nominated, she certainly wouldn't be a top sportsperson of the year purely on her sporting achievement, but a great story.

It was more than a race - she won the European 10,000M Gold Medal

 

[chrisd]

It was more than a race - she won the European 10,000M Gold Medal

No one else who won gold there were nominated and there were some big names winning there

 

[Deleted member 15344]

No one else who won gold there were nominated and there were some big names winning there

That shouldnt lessen her achievement though should it

She still won two medals throughout the year - one a gold.

 

[chrisd]

That shouldnt lessen her achievement though should it

She still won two medals throughout the year - one a gold.

Phil, as much an achievement as it was, and I'm not suggesting it wasn't monumental, tonight it was always about "personality" and a "story"

 

[tugglesf239]

Further proof that, as a sport, golf just does not really register with the wider British public.

No surprise that the game continues to struggle for media coverage.

You should try being a golfing Rugby League fan.

Always last on the agenda when the BBC are involved.

Only real mention tonight was to show a punch-up in the grand final.

Or myo mention the absolute heroics of Sam Burgess in the Aussie grand final

Well they can talk about him now he plays kick and clap.…

Meanwhile RU hogs all the attention again

 

[Fyldewhite]

Hamilton's achievement was the equivalent of Rory winning two majors using clubs that gave him two shots a round advantage on 90% of the field!

I like F1 and follow every race but it isn't a true individual sport. It's a team game where the car development is the real objective. Yes he drove well all season but can only really say he beat Rosberg but best driver? Who really knows?

I was surprised the public voted in the numbers they obviously did.......and so were the bookies, he was 9/1 half way through the voting period and I wasn't even tempted.... :-(

 

[FairwayDodger]

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Pretty much sums it up for me

As a golf fan Rory for me should have won

But F1 fans would say that Hamilton was right to win

Hamilton had the best year he could possibly have in his sport - he is their World Champion in one of the biggest sports in the World

You're not wrong with this. I guess to try and award it to the genuinely "best" sportsperson of the year you'd need an impartial panel to try and assess and rank achievement across diverse sports, not an easy task. Instead it's celebrity big brother for sports stars. Fair enough, it is what it is.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

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You're not wrong with this. I guess to try and award it to the genuinely "best" sportsperson of the year you'd need an impartial panel to try and assess and rank achievement across diverse sports, not an easy task. Instead it's celebrity big brother for sports stars. Fair enough, it is what it is.

Both would have been worthy winners IMO

It came down to Hamilton winning recently - if Rory had won a major last week he would have won

 

[rksquire]

Can't deny Hamilton's achievement, I'm just not sure it's sufficient to beat out McIlroy's.

Hamilton won a 2 horse race in a sport that's lost its way a bit, but team issues with Rosberg played out on track and media, and the final double points *debacle / let's keep an increasingly less interesting sport interesting stroke of genius * kept the publics interest and it's fresh. He did beat the 2nd best driver in a car of equal ability.... But still, it was a 2 horse race.

McIlroy's sporting achievements are well known here, and I think even Hamilton acknowledged this during the speech..... in my opinion, given the depths of respective fields and the plane their respective peers talk about their abilities (in the past season), I think McIlroy should have edged it.

I don't know why McIlroy didn't get the votes, but I do wonder if it had been Rose or Poults rather McIlroy what would the result have been?

Having said, I also voted for Gallagher & Evans.

 

[Liverbirdie]

Winning SPOTY for driving a car, the worlds gone mad.

 

[GB72]

The result is not that surprising. To the average person in the street golf means very little. There is next to no terrestrial TV coverage, very little radio comment and an ever dwindling press coverage. As far as a majority of people are concerned, golf probably does not exist outside of The Open and that was months ago. I would bet that, without the published list of the top 10 to choose from, very few of the public would pick any golfer's achievements as worthy of recognition.

 

[fundy]

Even more worryingly, McIlroy was closer to losing to Pavey than he was to beating Hamilton, it wasnt even close!

 

[Baldy Bouncer]

Rory needs to get himself a smoking hot girlfriend who will kiss him on his helmet every time he wins a comp.:thup::whoo::clap::cheers:

 

[Tongo]

I disagree that it was Hamilton rather than McIlroy but that's not surprising.

My only beef was the rather short shrift that was given to the Philip Hughes tragedy. This was a massive event in the cricket year and it was almost treated as a footnote and Lineker almost sounded dismissive when the camera went to him. The whole tragedy should have received a bit more air time, particularly as it was so recent and still so raw.

(PS: I did only watch the last hour so if there was something in the first 90 mins, i retract the above comments!)

 

[Deleted member 15344]

The BBC have already broadcasted a tribute to him

Also unfortunatly other sport stars passed this year - do you give a tribute to each one ?

 

[Tongo]

The BBC have already broadcasted a tribute to him

Also unfortunatly other sport stars passed this year - do you give a tribute to each one ?

In short, no. Was the tribute earlier in the program?

And how many of those that passed died on the field in such circumstances as Hughes?

 

[Deleted member 15344]

In short, no. Was the tribute earlier in the program?

And how many of those that passed died on the field in such circumstances as Hughes?

Tribute was a week or so on a Saturday

You can't just give a tribute to one without giving them all one - they were all recognised together in the same way Spoty do every year

 

[delc]

Lewis Hamilton got 33.8% of the vote compared with only 19.9% for Rory McIlroy, so obviously more petrol heads than golfers out there! :mmm:

 

[EuanRoss]

Rory needs to get himself a smoking hot girlfriend who will kiss him on his helmet every time he wins a comp.:thup::whoo::clap::cheers:

Maybe that's why he binned Caroline.

 

[Deleted member 18588]

Winning SPOTY for driving a car, the worlds gone mad.

Yeah!

It should have gone to someone who walks 4-5 miles, has a chap to carry his bats and hits a stationary ball about 69 times.:angry: