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| Who should the club back as Sports Personality of the Year? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by Dubya - Mon 4th Oct 2004, 8:54am | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| write-in: Bradley Wiggins? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by Mike - Mon 4th Oct 2004, 12:12pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What no Tanni Grey Thompson? She won her 10th and 11th Paralympic titles in Athens. And Amir Khan will be the young sports personality of the year, so there's no need to vote for him. Anyway, I still voted for Kelly Holmes, and I reckon she will win it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by RTT - Mon 4th Oct 2004, 12:33pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Isn't it supposed to be about Sports Personality of the year? If that is the case, I think they need to have a reasonable recognition rate amongst the public, and have been interviewed sufficient times to give the general public some idea of their personality. The options in the poll fulfill that criteria (with the possible exception of the CowboyNeal option), but I wouldn't have thought these others do. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by Mike - Mon 4th Oct 2004, 12:50pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RTT said: Isn't it supposed to be about Sports Personality of the year? I think Tanni Grey Thompson fulfils the criteria you set out, although she is almost certainly the only paralympic competitor to do so. She did come third in the Sports Personality of the Year in 2000, so she must have a certain degree of recognition. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by Dubya - Mon 4th Oct 2004, 3:43pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Whether you've heard of him or not, Bradley Wiggins is still the most successful British Olympian in a single Olympics since 1964, with three medals -- two golds and a bronze... Including especially the bronze in the Madison, despite crashing!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by RTT - Mon 4th Oct 2004, 3:50pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dubya said: Whether you've heard of him or not, Bradley Wiggins is still the most successful British Olympian in a single Olympics since 1964, with three medals -- two golds and a bronze... Including especially the bronze in the Madison, despite crashing!! Fair enough, but this is an award for a "Personality". It isn't a vote for "Most Successful Sportsman". | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by Mike - Mon 4th Oct 2004, 3:51pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dubya said: Bradley Wiggins is still the most successful British Olympian in a single Olympics since 1964, with three medals -- two golds and a bronze... Actually, he got a gold, a silver and a bronze. Which, arguably, puts him behind Kelly Holmes at this years Olympics (given the medals table is always ordered by number of golds). But he is the first Brit to win three medals in one Olympics since 1964. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| by Ingers - Mon 4th Oct 2004, 11:28pm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I believe it's only called Sports Personality of the year because it was originally going to be called Sportsman of the Year (since the correct English meaning of the suffix -man is not sex-specific) but the BBC were worried about upsetting the lefty feminists. The word sportsperson was correctly rejected for sounding ridiculous so they compromised on 'sports personality'. I'm not sure that having a personality ever had much to do with it: cf past winners like Rusedski, Steele, Mansell (twice)! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
