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Mo Farah
Andy Murray
Sarah Storey
Katherine Grainger
Sir Chris Hoy
Rory McIlroy
Nicola Adams
David Weir
Bradley Wiggins
Ben Ainslie
Ellie Simmonds
Jessica Ennis
3 cyclists 🙂
I have to say its been such a remarkable year it seems arbitrary even to have a shortlist never mind choose one winner.
It will be Farah. Popular vote with no account of significance. Ennis 1 gold, pah. Nice a*** though. Murray, long time nearly man, why him? Granger, McIlroy, Adams, Weir no idea who they are. Simmonds, the sympathy vote.
For significance Wiggins as 2 golds are common.
Glad you've posted that because people have been talking about it but I have so far been too lazy to google it and find the list!
It'll be a tough call, there's a few on the list who, whilst have achieved things greater than most of us ever will, just aren't well known and popular enough to win - but plenty that are!
Has to be wiggo.
Everyone knows tdf , wiggins is a household name these days and its not for winning the olympic tt;)
Oooh its a tough year.
I think most of the above would normally have a great chance but this year the standards are so high.
Ennis is in there because she needs to be good at 7 T&F events to win. Using the same logic, shouldn't Laura Trott get a nomination?
I thinks its between Wiggins and Ennis
The expectation factor that Ennis had to carry made her gold a great achievement.
Same could be said of Wiggins after the TDF, but ennis was the face of the games.
Farah has achieved a feat no other middle distance runner had.
Others have longevity in their events.
And the Paralympians have to deal with so much just to compete let alone be world class.
Murray a gold and a grand slam is awesome, and he came across well at Wimbledon.
All of them have a story and deserve to win, such a great year for sport and British sport. I would begrudge no one on that list if that win it they all deserve it.
Obviously we all have our own favourites.
I think having 3 cyclists in there means they won't win it will ssplit the cycling vote a bit like last year (I Hinkle) 3 golfers but Cav won. I see Victoria P's husband has been moaning that she hasn't been nominated probably as they couldn't put up with her whining and crying when she came 10th. I say Mo Farah too. that is who I will vote for despite loving Jess, Sarah Storey etc.
How/ when do we vote?? Wiggins for me I think.
My top 3...
3. Andy Murray
2. Mo Farah
1. Bradley Wiggins.
Think it'll be close between 1 & 2 unless you're a daily fail reader who thinks mo should be deported back to Somalia...
that's the first spoty list i've seen where if anyone of them won i'd be happy. All are great athletes and all did something deserving of the prize.
Its a tough one.
Going to vote for Wiggins myself, however I wouldn't mind if Bed Ainslie won.
[quote=Bunnyhop said]Its a tough one.
Going to vote for Wiggins myself, however I wouldn't mind if Bed Ainslie won.
Freudian slip ? 😉
Threes cyclists though may mean the cycling vote is split between them as with last year and the golfing nominees.
Does the personality bit come into it at any point? wiggo certainly has one but some of those on the list don't.
shouldn't it be sports person of the year if it's just about their achievements?
I reckon it's bradley or mo
I think Wiggins should have won in this epic year - TDF, Olympic Hero and a top personality too. Sadly I think the whole Lance Armstrong scandal has degraded or sullied road cycling and the TdF as an honourable achievement in the public's eye.
Wiggins for my vote - TDF and Olympic Gold so close together was awesome.
Mo Farah would be my second place vote.
Rory McIlroy third.
It will be Farah. Popular vote with no account of significance. Ennis 1 gold, pah. Nice a*** though. Murray, long time nearly man, why him? Granger, McIlroy, Adams, Weir no idea who they are. Simmonds, the sympathy vote.
For significance Wiggins as 2 golds are common.
Not sure I understand most of that 😉
The thing that people forget is "sports [b]PERSONALITY[/b] of the year".
Murray doesn't have one,
Ennis seems nice, but tell me something else about her?
Farrah seem's like a decent chap but again, what else does he do/say?
Hoy, again, great guy, but not really doing it for me.
Wiggins, he called journalists a bunch of offensive ladyparts, that alone is worthy of a duff BBC trophy surly?
meehaja- Lineker was on the one show talking about it. His line is the title "Sporting [b]Personality[/b]" is historic but basically having a personality might motivate you to vote but it should be about the achievement.
But agree, Wiggins does have the personality of the list by a country mile.
wiggins has a strong, but divisive personality that doesn't endear him to everyone.
Between me and my buddies it's 50/50 whether or not we actually like wiggo. The thing we all agree on is how amazing he rode this year
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We're going to start drawing the raffle numbers now
bit of a myth that it is anything to do with 'personality', it's just the name of the award (since 99). It's; "Awarded to the sportsperson whose actions have most captured the public's imagination"
For that reason I'm going for Mo. I think the Armstrong thing has torpedoed chances for brad, sadly. Too much of a risk for the beeb who are obviously extremely risk averse currently. As far as capturing the imagination goes, probably Mo, or a good few of the others.
Would be very happy to be wrong though.
Suitable as they all are to win it, in what has been an exceptional year for sport... There's only 1 name in that list of 10 that TV companies have made programmes on, who sells Newspapers when he's on the front page, who genuinely is so anti-celebrity that I think the public really relate well with his dour demeanour, and who has done something so far above and beyond what everyone else in the list has achieved that no other Brit has ever done!
Only a fool would bet against Brad, even if he doesn't want the award he's pretty much a shoo in to get it!
I think the Armstrong thing has torpedoed chances for brad, sadly. Too much of a risk for the beeb who are obviously extremely risk averse currently
Are you suggesting that the beeb won't let him win, regardless of the public vote results ?
I can't imagine Brad gives a monkey's ... either way.
I reckon it's Mo or Wiggo, they are both big personalities.
Ennis possibly for the achievement and Wier for the para sympathy vote.
Wiggins is the bookies favourite at the moment
FWIW Nicola Adams won the first ever women's olympic boxing gold. And she has a grin that goes from ear to ear - twice round 🙂
David Weir yes but no Hannah Cockroft? bags of personality
Why does a vote for a Paralympian have to be seen as a "sympathy vote" 🙄
Wier for the para sympathy vote? Yea, not like he did anything this year, over a huge range of distances...
please not farah, if i see that stupid infantile mobot one more time i'll smash the telly. Is he auditioning for a presenter job on cbeebies ?
1. Bradders
2. Mo
3. Jess
As much as some of the others are equally deserving of a top 3 spot, I can't see people voting beyond Brad's sudden public acclaim and THAT Super Saturday. The Weirwolf deserves top 3 IMO simple because of the range of his performances.
Why does a vote for a Paralympian have to be seen as a "sympathy vote"
I think you mis-understand.
I don't think the paras are any different from any other athlete. What I meant was that [i]the general public[/i] may think that they deserve a sympathy vote.
As for Wier's range of distances - I'm hugely impressed and it's clearly a tremendous achievement, but I have no idea how much of one. I don't know how compatible different distances are in wheelchair racing vs running. After all it'd be flat out impossible to do the same thing in running, surely?
..I think you mis-understand.
Yes, probably.
Its just that the two mentions of paralympians in the thread so far have come with what a "sympathy vote" disclaimer
yours and mattsccm's
Maybe I'm a bit quick to jump on it, but it does wind me up.
(But fair enough, if I misread what you were meaning then I apologise)
I see the paralympians as the same as any other athlete. Which of course makes them something to be admired and respected. The sentimental 'overcoming adversity' bit gets on my nerves a bit.
Ellie Simmonds said she didn't consider herself disabled, just short.
I would have to agree on the over sentimentality that is often attached.
Not needed at all.
Wiggins is the bookies favourite at the moment
By a long, long way.
Good to see Ellie Simmonds made the short list.
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agree with munqe chick and others, multiple cyclists will split the vote, the tour will mean less and have residual memory than the olympics for jo public.
Ellie Simmonds said she didn't consider herself disabled, just short.
That's a great attitude for life for Simmonds there and one it's hard not to respect. But she needs to see herself a disabled to some extend or she'd be up against other athletes in the Olympics not the Paralympics. I'd have been in the Olympics too apart from not having big enough lungs etc.
I think the best thing that has happened with para athletics is that it has gone beyond the sympathy syndrome and now considered proper athletes in their own right. With that comes the ability to be compared rationally. For me that means it would be very hard for a para star to get my spoty vote simply because, like a lot of other able body sports I'd also not vote for, they are competing in a sport with a much smaller pool of athletes from which to rise to the top from.
Ellie Simmons. Cant abide Bradley Wiggins. And don't care about the rest.